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What about the EU Single Market?
April 23rd, 2015
Discussions of the economic situation in Europe and the eurozone during the last few years have a heavy emphasis on government debt and central bank policy. But from the time when the Treaty of Rome back in 1957 created ...
Lifting potential growth in the euro area
April 23rd, 2015
Speech by Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Welt-Währungskonferenz Potential growth and monetary policy The euro area economy seems now to be turning the corner. Both the hard and soft data suggest that ...
Central Bank of Germany issued April Monthly Report
April 22nd, 2015
Structural developments in the German banking sector The financial and sovereign debt crisis which has afflicted the euro area for more than seven years now has clearly left a mark on the financial market, having forced monetary policymakers to ...
Top 5 overseas contracting hotspots of 2015
April 20th, 2015
Due to weaker economic global activity, 2014 proved to be a difficult year for some countries and contracting opportunities may have not registered the expected demand, writes Helene Truffa of Capital Consulting, an international tax and employment advisory. In ...
PwC achieves five star rating
April 20th, 2015
PwC has issued an announcement to inform that: PwC achieves five star rating in Business in the Community’s Corporate Responsibility Index – the only professional services firm to do so. Professional services firm PwC has achieved the highest possible ...
Grexit Fears Cause GDP Forecasts to Plummet
April 20th, 2015
Economists have severely cut their forecasts for core Greek economic indicators. That reflects growing concern that the debt burden of the southern European country may force an exit from the euro as its creditors grow frustrated with the lack ...
Analysis finds AIM companies directly contribute nearly £15bn to UK economy
April 16th, 2015
More than 3,580 companies have listed on AIM market in the past 20 years; raising £39.5 billion at admission, followed by further fundraising amounting to £51 billion AIM companies directly support employment of over 430,000 people and contributed tax ...
Chinese, Australian benchmarks lead Asian stock market gains
April 16th, 2015
Most major Asian stock indexes were higher Thursday as Chinese shares rebounded on stimulus hopes a day after gloomy first-quarter economic numbers and Australian shares rose on a surprise drop in the jobless rate. KEEPING SCORE: Most Asian indexes ...
OPEC Going Broke, Dumping Dollars. Is That Good Or Bad?
April 15th, 2015
When oil prices fell out of bed last winter there was much hand-wringing over the fate of the former beneficiaries of high-priced crude. Trillions of dollars of junk bonds issued by frackers, for instance, might default, oil field services ...
Dollar heads for biggest weekly gain in nearly a month
April 10th, 2015
The dollar rose Friday against most major rivals, remaining on track to log its best week in about a month. The ICE U.S. Dollar Index DXY, +50% a key measure of the dollar’s strength against a basket of six currencies, ...
