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.
MADRID | By Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, analyst at XTB | valenciaplaza.com | Has the Japanese experiment failed? Under the stress of some political pressures, Japan may have rushed into an expansion of its monetary base without all the due protections.
WASHINGTON | By Pablo Pardo. In July the American GDP will go up, although the economy won’t even feel it. Nor the so-called sequester or the Fed massive debt purchases have anything to do with it. Oil prices and the dollar are also out of the equation. The key: R&D will be considered as an investment.
MADRID | By JP Marín Arrese | The ECB has made crystal clear it has no intention to undertake any extra effort in helping the economy to overcome its current recession. Its message utterly fails to provide confidence.
MADRID | What is important is that public debt drops and the economy recovers. And to achieve that, Japan has chosen the opposite strategy than the eurozone’s authorities.
MADRID | Will the ECB finally U-turn or would it sit as a quiet spectator while the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan intervene with massive liquidity injections against the credit crunch?
By David Denton | The Richter Scale | The UK QE has merely allowed the banks to off load UK government debt and replace this with other government debt, helping to keep bond prices high but having no impact on the real economy, other than to keep interest rates artificially low.
By CaixaBank researchers | The markets welcome the central bank’s expansionary policies but the latest indicators are still weak.
MADRID | By Tania Suárez | Profim EAFI’s head of financial analysis José María Luna said in an interview for consensodelmercado.com that the ECB should cut interest rates the sooner the better.
MADRID | Highlights of the speech by Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, meeting Tuesday with members of the Spanish Parliament.