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The Corner has a team of on-the-ground reporters in capital cities ranging from New York to Beijing. Their stories are edited by the teams at the Spanish magazine Consejeros (for members of companies’ boards of directors) and at the stock market news site Consenso Del Mercado (market consensus). They have worked in economics and communication for over 25 years.
The Treaty of Aachen: The two largest European economies barely differ

The Treaty of Aachen: The Two Largest European Economies Barely Differ

Last Tuesday in the city of Aachen, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel signed a treat to give a new impulse to the EU. This is heir to the Elysee Treaty that was signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer in 1963. The German-French alliance may not be important in terms of political convergence, but the economic reality of globalisation has already achieved it with listed shares.


For the United Nations, multilateralism is the way forward

For the United Nations, Multilateralism Is the Way Forward

Athanasius Dimadis and María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés  | The United Nations is often criticized for bureaucratic inefficiency. Despite this, it still wields influence in its mission to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, the president of the 73rd General Assembly of the UN, has pledged to maintain the institution’s commitment to multilateral relations while proposing crucial reforms more in tune with the “needs and quests” of an ever more connected world.


Iberdrola will light up New York

Iberdrola Will Light Up New York

New York state (US) has awarded two contracts for the construction of a wind farm and a solar power plants to Avangrid Renewables, the US subsidiary of Iberdrola.



Economy policy in difficult times: the risk of trying to drive the economy back to the peak of the cycle

Economy Policy in Difficult Times: The Risk Of Trying To Drive The Economy Back To The Peak Of The Cycle

José Ramón Díez Guijarro (Bankia Estudios) | Economic cycles are inexorable, reflecting the dynamics of economic markets, summed up by Schumpeter as the process of “creative destruction”. After the initial recovery of the expansionary phase comes the tipping point, with growth superior to potential, to later enter in the slowdown phase, in which there is a gradual convergence with trend rhythms of growth and the negative output gap closes.



The euro at 20: An enduring success but a fundamental failure

The Euro At 20: An Enduring Success But A Fundamental Failure

via The Conversation |  New Year’s Day 1999 saw the largest monetary changeover in history. On that date, just 20 years ago, 12 members of the European Union formally adopted a brand-spanking-new currency, the euro. Today seven additional EU member states use it, along with Montenegro, Kosovo, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City. If survival is the ultimate gauge of success, then this grand monetary experiment can be said to have succeeded.


Caixabank, Telefónica, El Corte Inglés or Iberdrola, the Spanish firms best prepared to confront 2019

Caixabank, Telefónica, El Corte Inglés Or Iberdrola, The Spanish Firms Best Prepared To Confront 2019

Caixabank, Telefónica, El Corte Inglés or Iberdrola are some of the companies which are best prepared to confront a year which will serve as a point of inflection for the economy facing the uncertainties, both national and international, which will end up damaging economic growth, according to the latest report of the consultancy Advice Strategic Consultants.


And China arrived and defeated the Fed

And China Arrived And Defeated The Fed

Pablo Pardo | With his trade war, Trump has accelerated the slowdown in China, and now the world´s second economy is buying fewer goods and services from the US. And from the rest of the world in general. Not only Apple has declared that its profits are going to be reduced by China´s slowdown. Also, for example, its main rival outside China, Samsung.


re opening corporate debt

Re-Opening Of The Primary Corporate Debt Market, More Important Than The Respite In The Stock Market

The re-opening of the primary debt market for companies on both sides of the Atlantic, from which companies in the high yield segment also benefit, is good news given that it shows the reduction of investors’s fears and, more important, means a respite for the companies able to access again market financing. The primary high yield market in the US accumulate 41 days without operations, the longest drought in the registers of Dealogic, which began in 1995.