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Articles by Ana Fuentes

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Ana Fuentes
Columnist for El País and a contributor to SER (Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión), was the first editor-in-chief of The Corner. Currently based in Madrid, she has been a correspondent in New York, Beijing and Paris for several international media outlets such as Prisa Radio, Radio Netherlands or CNN en español. Ana holds a degree in Journalism from the Complutense University in Madrid and the Sorbonne University in Paris, and a Master's in Journalism from Spanish newspaper El País.
"Nobody believes in the Doha Round...Multilateral negotiation in the WTO is over"

World economy 3rd December 2018

“Nobody Believes In The Doha Round…Multilateral Negotiation In The WTO Is Over”

Ana Fuentes | “Perhaps the solution is to have 40 or 50 states agreeing, for example, common rules on e-commerce. And that all who are interested can join, as distinct from commercial agreements which you cannot choose to be part of – so if the EU signs a free trade agreement (FTA) with Canada, Israel cannot decide to be part of it”, explains J. Robert Basedow, Professor of International Political Economy at the LSE.

This M&A surge is a "nonsense", according to Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Interviews 23rd October 2018

“This Current M&A Surge Is The Most Stupid Thing”

Ana Fuentes | Quick and provocative, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (he insists on the presence of his second name to emphasize his Christian origins) is a machine in generating headlines. This was the Lebanese investor, resident in New York, who in 2007 developed the theory of the Black Swan, an unexpected event which changes the chain of events and which can only be rationalised after the event. Since then he has become a financial guru who dresses his ideas in striking concepts: Antifragility, pseudo stability, pseudo experts.

Nan Zhang

Interviews 9th October 2018

“Blockchain, A Decentralised Infrastructure, Is Interesting. We’ll See If It Can Be Monetised”

Ana Fuentes | “More than 80% of the global population has a mobile phone, more than can count on running water, a bathroom or electricity. We constantly generate data. But for us, as rational investors, the question is whether we are making profits from this, or whether we are just talking and beating about the bush.” concludes Zhang, who manages a fund specialising in Big Data for Rothschild, with 332 million euros under management and an annualised profit of 15.1%.

fjellner

In Europe 13th June 2018

“It’s more expensive to send something from the South of Sweden to Stockholm than it is from China”

Ana Fuentes (Strasbourg) | “Amazon is able to optimize their consumers´ experience and thus push down prices to compete with traditional and online retailers in Europe, but what worries me more, is Alibaba. They are able to virtually ship goods for free, what makes them extremely competitive even compared to Amazon, due to the universal postal convention, which says that China as a developing country”, says Christofer Fjellner, Member of the Committee on International Trade at the European Parliament.

Germany will have to accept greater responsibility within the EU and in the world

Interviews 10th May 2018

“The “Schism” Between East And West Is More Dangerous Than The One Between North And South”

Ana Fuentes | “The European leaders will also have to deal with insuring and enlarging a multilateral open system for trade, threatened not only by the US policies, which will lead to Germany having to accept more responsibility within the EU and in the world – and this includes not only the fields of economy and finance,” says Joachim Bitterlich, who was advisor to former Chancellor Helmut Kohl and is currently Professor at the ESCP School in Paris.

Gigas is a Spanish multinational of storage and information technology trading on the MAB

Interviews 23rd April 2018

“Half of the cloud computing is controlled by three companies, the other, by hundreds of thousands”

Gigas is a Spanish multinational of storage and information technology trading on the MAB. The company’s market capitalisation is €19 M. This year their revenues will be up 35% and profits by 126%, without considering any possible corporate deals. “People think the MAB is a secondary market, but it’s an alternative one, for companies which are expanding. In the Continuous Market, there’s hardly any company doing this in the explosive sense,” says Diego Cabezudo, CEO at Gigas.

Eurozone banks deposit facility rate.

In Europe 12th April 2018

Banking Union? Eurozone banks are hoarding nearly EUR700bn at the ECB

Eurozone banks are currently keeping 690 billion euros at their central bank, according to the ECB’s last figures. While the European Commission aims to achieve by end-2018 a completed banking union, this an evidence of a more fragmented market. Are lenders suspicious of their refinancing capability in order to honour their debts? And why is Ewald Nowotny asking to cut them some slack?

Change of cycle to cyclical stocks to defensive

World economy 11th April 2018

JP Morgan just can’t agree

While the US bank’s chief economist in pointing to systemic risks, financial bubbles and market complacency, his colleagues in Spain believe “this tale about market manipulation is not real.”