MADRID | By Julia Pastor | The operator of all Spain’s stock markets and financial systems BME has a couple of good reasons to celebrate. The company’s trading volume increased by 49.8% on a y-o-y basis to €72.2 bn in May, as the so-called Tobin tax on foreign exchange transactions has recently been postponed by 2016. This tax could cut BME’s volume by near 10%.
MADRID| By J.P. Marín Arrese | Buenos Aires acted in the right way by bridging the gap between its currency real value and the fake official quote. Yet, in doing so, it has openly exposed the emerging countries’ vulnerability. For the last years, their expansion delivery showed an outstanding record harnessed by cheap money conditions and renewed risk appetite, once the financial crisis looked firmly under control.
MADRID | By The Corner Team | The Spanish market’s activity is reviving: after the continued rally of last weeks, the stock exchange reached a monthly historic record in its number of negotiations and traded 30% more than October 2012 –the highest figure in the last 27 months.
SHANGHAI | By Hong Hao via Caixin | A great amount of research shows bourse trends can be foreseen, even if those for individual stocks cannot. Is the stock market predictable? It has been a haunting question. As early as 1900, in his doctorate dissertation titled The Theory of Speculation, Louis Bachelier laid out in some 70 pages why predicting stock prices would be futile.
MADRID | By Fernando G Urbaneja | The Spanish stock exchange has regained interest for both domestic and international investors. Despite the uncertainties, the South European markets look now more attractive and have shown a positive behaviour in the last months.
BANGALORE | By Srikanth Vasuraj | Just a month ago the stock market collapsed and the Rupee fell to an all-time low. Now in just two days things seem to look up and everyone is smiling. What’s up?!
WASHINGTON | By Pablo Pardo | Maybe this time Bernanke is just trying to provoke a mini-crash to lay the foundations for a progressive withdrawal of the monetary stimulus in 2014 or, maybe, 2015.
MADRID | By David Fernández | Foreign investors are showing a sudden interest in assets made in Spain due to, among others, central bank’s last data, Europe’s decision to delay the deficit commitment by two years and international factors such as second-round monetary helicopter launched by the Bank of Japan. Will this trend vanish?
MADRID | By J. M. Campuzano, analyst at Citigroup | During the crisis that began in 2007, capital markets’ weight has been cut to 350% from 450% of the world’s economic output. The past, in terms of depth and worldwide markets liquidity before the crisis, is long gone and will not come back.
Do The Corner’s readers feel in need of some optimistic note? Here you are, thanks to JP Morgan: although up until next Friday the volatility in the S&P 500 may increase due to the fact that on that day $385bn in options reach maturity, JP Morgan has published an analysis of the effect known as end of year. Smile. It looks at the historical performance, since 1920, of the market…