eurozone

Interviews 31st May 2016

“What Austerity Has Done Is To Highlight The Poor Management Of The Crisis”

Roberto Tamborini, author, Professor of Economy at Trento University says The Corner at this interview that “we can only start on the road towards a satisfactory recovery with fiscal and monetary coordination in the eurozone, and this fiscal stimulus can only be coordinated via Brussels. This directly calls into question the eurozone’s economic governance, one of the pillars of which is the Maastrich principle of exclusive national responsability.”

In Europe 26th May 2016

Eurozone’s Inflation Overshoot Is The Natural Slope

BoAML | Even with structural reforms, trend GDP growth may not be consistent with comfortable debt sustainability in key peripherals by the time inflation normalizes. If the euro area does not make progress towards fiscal union in the meantime, the ECB will likely have to remain involved on the bond market.

In Europe 19th May 2016

Is the Eurozone Ready for the Next Crisis?

The 2008 financial crisis was not a one-off event. The resources that were available to cope with that crisis would not necessarily be there if there was another crisis. Government debt and GDP ratios are still high, and pension and health costs are escalating across Europe.

In Europe 13th May 2016

Solid Eurozone Growth Confirmed Despite Political Uncertainties

BARCLAYS | Euro area Q1 preliminary GDP was revised down slightly to 0.5 % q/q from the flash release (-0.03pp), accelerating from Q4 0.3% q/q growth. German GDP rose 0.7% q/q, in line with our expectations, as robust domestic demand offset weak exports.

Markets 21st March 2016

Mind Your P’s And Q’s

James Alexander via Historinhas | A couple of my recent posts have focused on the immeasurability of inflation and the consequent immeasurability of RGDP. And, therefore, the unsuitability of using either as a guide to monetary policy, especially a notional “gap” between an unmeasurable RGDP and a theoretical maximum, but still unmeasurable, RGDP.

In Europe 11th March 2016

Corporate Investment In The Eurozone: A Diverse Picture

UBS | We conducted a survey to determine whether Eurozone corporates are starting to invest again, and how this would be funded – a crucial question not just for the business cycle, but also for individual sectors and stocks.

World economy 10th March 2016

Euro Area Grows As Fast As The US

James Alexander via Historinhas | Despite all the pessimism the Euro Area nearly caught up with US NGDP growth in Q4. Now that Italy and Spain have finally reported their Nominal GDP figures Eurostat shows that 4Q15 NGDP growth for the Euro monetary region as a whole was almost as fast, year-on-year, as the US.

In Europe 8th March 2016

The ECB Will Prefer To Be Safe Rather Than Sorry

The ECB’s main priority will be to fuel confidence in the financial markets and inflation will be its alibi for this. In February, eurozone CPI receded to -0.2% year-on-year and, in the short term, the region should be prepared for negative rates to continue.

In Europe 2nd March 2016

Euro Area Inflation To Turn Negative In 2H16, Falling To 0.6% In May

Goldman Sachs | While we expect that the combination of the fall in oil prices, the rise in the Euro and the weakening of equity prices will have relatively limited effects on growth, the effects on the near-term inflation outlook are likely to be much more substantial.

Spanish economy, Uncategorised 29th February 2016

Consumer spending in Spain outpaces eurozone

The figures issued by the Bank of Spain have confirmed what we could already see with the naked eye; namely that Spaniards are losing their fear of the future and spending again. After several years of austerity, the consumers in Spain have gradually loosened their purse strings over the past year. And to such an extent that consumer spending rose 3.1% in 2015, almost tripling the 1.2% registered a year earlier.

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