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.
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.
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.
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.
GENEVA | France fell four places from third in 2011 to seventh, while Spain climbed to fourth from eighth.
Argentina has so far led investors to believe that it is ready to default if necessary to avoid the New York court’s ruling. That reaction, although less than surprising, would worsen further its lack of credibility.
Roderick Parkes| If the free trade agreement between the US and Europe remains so appealing, it’s because nobody has actually shown that the EU could flourish without it.
By David Pérez | Four Spanish companies lead the European production of graphene. The growth potential of a market that today is valued at some $9 million is extraordinary.
MADRID | By Tania Suárez | Financial agent at GVC Gaesco, Gonzalo de Orovio spoke to thecorner.eu about central banks and why a strong euro may damage some economies in the eurozone but sends a good vibe to the markets.
By Ernst Stetter, secretary general at Feps | After the decision of the financial transaction tax and now the cap of the bonuses we are a step closer to the matter that the financial markets have to serve the people and not that the people should serve the markets.