After the Cypriot bank deposit one-off tax
By Euronomist | Being a Cypriot MP probably is today one of the worst jobs in the world. The return to the Cyprus pound does may sound more attractive now.
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Spanish banks cut again ECB loan addiction
The Spanish banks’ correction in February was 5.2 percentage points higher than the average in the eurozone.
Thursday’s chart: Quo Vadis, Italian yield?
Contagion has been bucked in the eurozone, in spite of the instability markets forecast over Italian politics.
It’s recession or depression for the UK
LONDON | The choices look grim for a Chancellor who must reduce the state’s debts and wants to be re-elected.
After 45 months of S&P 500 rises
MADRID | By Javier Flores, analyst at Asinver | The question, of course, is how long it will take for the curve to head downwards. No expansion lasts for ever.
Europe should go for micro solutions
LONDON | If more than 99% of all European businesses are, in fact, small businesses that shape the true back-bone of the European economy, European governments are clearly missing the chance to generate at least a few millions of new jobs.
Has the ECB really done its best to fight the eurocrisis?
MADRID | By J.L.M. Campuzano | Fitch’s decision to downgrade Italian debt from A – to BBB + last Friday didn’t come as a big surprise. Nor did the negative outlook. However, it does pose a warning about the fundamental problems of this country and of the rest of the eurozone, where authorities and investors are currently showing a disturbing complacency/conviction in a better future.
Biotechnology sector meets in Barcelona for 2013 BIO-Europe Spring conference
BARCELONA | CNA | 1,300 biomedical companies will participate in the event, with more than 2,000 delegates and executives. 60 out of the 100 Spanish companies attending are from Catalonia.
S&P, Moody’s, Fitch: low competition, high incompetence
WASHINGTON | The problem wasn’t just the forced flexibility implied in the S&P models to rate AAA what should had never been awarded top quality grades. The supervisory models themselves were incorrect, to start with.
Spain among top 5 world’s tourism industries
GENEVA | France fell four places from third in 2011 to seventh, while Spain climbed to fourth from eighth.