Monitoring Le Pen!
The French presidential election, or Présidentielle 2017, is comfortably the most important election in Europe this year, also because an Italian election has yet to be called. The leader of […]
Tag Archives: France
Week End Blog – China slowdown, Eurozone resilience and American windfall
Welcome to the Week End Blog. This week’s main macro number had to be Chinese GDP growth for Q3. Year-on-year GDP growth came in at 7.3%, slightly above expectations. Yet, […]
Week End Blog – Russia, again, lower bond yields, again, and GDP growth, again
Another week dominated by geopolitical tensions. Equities are up this week, but it feels like this could become a bumpy ride. As in almost every other week this year interest […]
Consumer Confidence Explained
Last week, German consumer confidence came in at the highest level since January 2007. Confidence among German consumers bottomed shortly after the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008 and […]
Jeroen Blokland Financial Markets Blog 