Week End Blog – Greece, again!
Holiday over, the Week End Blog returns. In a somewhat desperate attempt not to let Greece dominate this blog, I start with the latest IMF growth forecasts. Again, most forecasts […]
Holiday over, the Week End Blog returns. In a somewhat desperate attempt not to let Greece dominate this blog, I start with the latest IMF growth forecasts. Again, most forecasts […]
No news from the Eurogroup ‘get-together’ this week, so I can deal with Greece later. US retail sales continue to disappoint. The headline number for April, published on Wednesday, revealed […]
It has been a couple of weeks but Greece regained its top spot in the financial headlines as debt talks did not yield any tangible result. If anything, things are […]
You can think whatever you want, but you have to admit that ECB president Maria Draghi is pretty successful. Even without having spent any QE money (the kick off is […]
Welcome to the Week End Blog. This week was again all about politics. European politics, to be precise. First, the Greek roller coaster continued for at least another week. In […]
At the beginning of the week The Wall Street Journal sent this graph out into the world. It showed that in recent years the number of days that the S&P […]
Let’s start this Week End Blog on a positive note. Believe me you are going to need it. Geopolitical tensions eased somewhat compared to last week. The ceasefire in Gaza […]