Spain is in recession and will remain so with budget reforms yet to bite, export markets contracting and unemployment rising, indicate analysts at Grant Thornton. But that is one of the coin sides. Have a look at the brighter spots.
Richard Saunders, chief executive at the Investment Management Association, calls for clarity on which entities are or are not ‘shadow banks’. Saunders makes the point that asset managers are not the same as banks because they don’t pose any systemic risk.
Did you know that at O2, 20% of the workforce is under the age of 25? Ann Pickering, human relations head at Telefónica UK, sees a generation with the necessary skills to pull the British economy out of recession. Her view may even be applicable to the rest of the European Union.
China’s economic relation with Africa is forcing the EU to rethink its strategy towards the continent.
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