Why is Spain’s unemployment rate so high?
MADRID | The 6.2 million of unemployed is brutal, anomalous, and lacks explanatory references among countries with quite similar structures.
Search Results for ten lost months
Moody’s plays down Spain bailout expectations
Risk agency Moody’s analysts said in an interview that the probabilities of Spain asking for a rescue are less pressing than previously thought.
A fair ending for Alfredo Sáenz
MADRID | By Carlos Díaz Güell | In the coming weeks we’ll see if the banking career of Alfredo Sáenz, probably Spain’s best bank manager during democracy, with Emilio Botín’s permission, is finished or not.
Berlusconi, Bárcenas and Angela Merkel
By Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, analyst at XTB | For all the noise these scandals bring about, the pressure on Merkel should not abate. The eurozone needs that Germany relaxes its stand on public investment cuts, and efficient measures to deal with sovereign debt should be agreed by core country members.
The reduction in tail risks eases periphery sovereign debt crisis
BARCELONA | By CaixaBank analysts | Notable calm in the periphery’s sovereign debt crisis. Italy’s election and Spain’s budget figures will be the source of transitory turbulence.
Special Japan: A Sinking Economy In The Land Of The Rising Sun
After two decades of relative decline, decision makers in Tokyo need to tackle serious reforms to boost Japan’s economic system. This is the first part of a series published by The Fair Observer perusing the country’s economic challenges.
A flawed Berlin-dictated Euro-governance
MADRID | Germany is taking advantage of other euro zone partner’s feebleness to impose its credo. It aims to firmly anchor the fiscal compact initiative it has so forcefully battled for.
The euro area’s economic crisis takes its toll on the labour market
BARCELONA | CaixaBank | The adjustment in employment during the crisis has been more intense in those countries with a real estate bubble. Leading indicators point to further job losses.
Truce in the euro area’s peripheral debt markets
Rating agencies keep Spain’s credit rating at investment grade. The stability of the United States’ debt market, threatened by the fiscal cliff.
Catalonia’s unemployment reaches historical record
Over the last month, unemployment in Catalonia grew by 2.19%, while a year ago, in October 2011, it grew by 2.43%.