Abenomics work
BARCELONA | By CaixaBank research team | Our scenario expects this expansion to continue in 2014 since the effects of the Bank of Japan’s quantitative easing should continue until well into the coming year.
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The ECB’s U-turn
MADRID | By Carlos Díaz Guell | Mario Draghi was accused of having become a trader, but the ECB governor is just giving the European Monetary Union enough time to implement reforms.
Guide to support the Spanish domestic demand
BARCELONA | By CaixaBank research team | Factors to revive private consumption and corporate investment in a Spanish economy gearing towards recovery.
Finally: the ECB would charge banks that leave their money in Frankfurt
MADRID | By Francisco López | In an attempt to end the financial fragmentation of the markets, the ECB makes banks to move their money injected via QE. From now on, marginal lending facility of the ECB would cost them money. The German banks have 100,000 million deposited with the ECB.
Central Banks have a hard time understanding their mission
SAO PAULO | By Marcus Nunes | “The past few days have made it overwhelmingly clear that the Fed is steering this recovery. That should be comforting; all it has to do is steer things in a more expansionary direction! But it isn’t.”
Is Mario Draghi bothered?
MADRID | By Luis Arroyo | Monetary policies are a by-product of politics, after all, and in Europe, politics are tightly controlled from Berlin, which will probably use the Fed’s reaction as example of what the ECB must do.
All you need is growth
MADRID | By JP Marín Arrese | As we move into troubled waters following the FED intention to taper off its massive asset buying scheme, the ECB is bound to take bold steps to protect both the European economies and the common currency. Otherwise we may run into severe turbulences in the coming months.
The Bank of International Settlements and Mr Caruana
MADRID | By Luis Arroyo | The BIS is one of the institutions that has publicly put more pressure on the US Federal Reserve to change the course of its monetary policy–with disparaging results.
China’s credit situation: is it that bad?
What is China’s credit real situation? Amid international markets’ woes, our experts put data into perspective. For Antonio Sánchez-Gijón, overall indebtedness of the Chinese economy begins to be seen as excessive and difficult to control. However, Ray Kwong believes liquidity shortages are normal in China, especially when banks are moving assets around to meet capital requirements before the end of a quarter, like around now.
Europe needs emerging markets to lead the recovery
BARCELONA | By CaixaBank research | It is the euro area that is most dependent on exports. That is why the EU has once again started to discuss the urgent need to carry out an ambitious agenda of structural reforms.