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Articles by Victor Jimenez

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Victor Jimenez
London contributor at thecorner.eu, reporting about the City and the Eurozone economies. He regularly writes for Spanish newspaper group Prensa Ibérica--some of his features include shared work with journalists of The Daily Telegraph and the BBC.
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Markets 1st February 2012

Desperate British bankers and the knighthood raiders

LONDON | Who in Britain would place faith in the good nature of bankers? While Wednesday afternoon the House of Commons played volleyball blaming either Labour opposition or the Conservative-led Coalition cabinet for the bonus pool available to top Royal Bank of Scotland 83pc-public workers (remember the €45 billion taxpayer bailout), how lonely Commerzbank’s chairman Martin Blessing must have felt. Mr Blessing told a London court on Monday that most of his…

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Markets 27th January 2012

Investors swarm off European funds at their loss

LONDON | The dramatic meltdown of confidence in the euro zone’s economic performance left the European fund industry suffering almost €70 billion in flows out of equity funds in 2011. Data colected by Morningstar European funds show that over €119 billion were extracted from long-term funds last year, and although money market funds still saw strong inflows in December, with €4.4 billion, flows to short-term funds were negative for the last…

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World economy 25th January 2012

That Lagarde’s speech [video]

Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, was talking on Tuesday in Berlin about the obvious economic challenges in 2012, and a possible policy path for global cooperation to restore confidence and growth. Readers from around the peripheral European Monetary Union zone have convinced The Corner that Ms Lagarde’s words have achieved quite an echo among member states currently undergoing net austerity pressures. These are some of the most celebrated…

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Markets 23rd January 2012

Earnings season? Beware of the glitch!

All obvious events are treacherous animals: take for instance the understandable fact that publicly traded companies do their best for each earnings season to appear and sound as joyous as investors would have dreamt. The new accounting system of 2007, primarily based on international standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), raises target information to the category of the golden calf of the accounting rules. Among these parameters, professors Leandro…

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Companies 18th January 2012

Building Thames Estuary airport “will waste precious time,” says Ferrovial’s BAA

LONDON | The British prime minister David Cameron on Wednesday unilaterally gave his go-ahead to a closer study of the Thames Estuary airport proposal, among other options on expanding UK's travel and trade links with non-European markets. Downing Street explained that plans for a second runway at Stansted and any expansion of Gatwick before 2019 remained ruled out, as it is a third runaway for Heathrow airport. The Thames scheme…

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aggregation line 14th January 2012

Weekend link fest

A curated selection of links we hope can enlighten us all; some come from our corner, some do from other corners of the net. And as always, our comment widgets are anxious to get your suggestions. The euro debt drama explained in 100 words It’s not the banker’s pay system, populace! EC’s Tajani: don’t worry Cameron will U-turn Former Santander banker, now Lloyds boss says no to bonus Manufacturing jobs rise…