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Europe’s Plunging Borrowing Costs Mark Two New Milestones
April 8th, 2015
Switzerland is first with 10-year bond at negative yield as Mexico lines up 100-year euro bond Europe’s plunging borrowing costs marked two new milestones on Wednesday, with Switzerland becoming the first country ever to issue 10-year debt that gives ...
Euronext announces monthly trading volumes for March 2015
April 8th, 2015
Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, today announced trading volumes for March 2015. The March 2015 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at €9,119 million (+31% compared with March 2014). Overall the first ...
Alexis Tsipras flies to Moscow amid speculation of bailout from Putin
April 8th, 2015
Greek prime minister to sign accords with Russia, including gas price discount and possible loans in return for Greek assets, that would alarm EU creditors The Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras, began a controversial visit to Moscow on Tuesday as ...
The Greek crisis and the clash of philosophies within the EU
April 7th, 2015
Listening to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and his Greek counterpart Yanis Varoufakis speaking about the recent Eurogroup agreement on Greece, one could be forgiven for thinking they were talking about two completely different texts. There are obviously deep ...
Greek finance minister wants initial deal with lenders at April 24 Eurogroup meeting – paper
April 6th, 2015
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis wants the negotiations with the country’s official lenders to reach a preliminary deal at an April 24 meeting of eurozone finance ministers, he told Greek daily Naftemporiki on Monday. “At the Eurogroup (meeting) of April 24 ...
Cyprus lifts all capital controls as banks recover
April 6th, 2015
Cyprus is lifting the last remaining capital controls it imposed on its banking system during the financial crisis of 2013. Cyprus was the only crisis-hit eurozone country to restrict capital transfers, as it faced a run on the banks. ...
Is The Whole World Slowing Down?
April 6th, 2015
The stats just keep getting stranger and, if you’re a policymaker or an investor, scarier. According to a (now widely publicized) McKinsey & Co study, instead of deleveraging after the debt-induced crisis of 2008-2009, the world borrowed another $57 trillion. ...
Greece’s Prime Minister Tsipras Heads to Moscow as Bailout Talks Drag On
April 6th, 2015
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will be walking a fine line in Moscow this week, aiming to demonstrate an independent streak to voters at home without irritating the European Union as he negotiates for urgently needed funding. Greek officials and ...
ECB says QE programme already boosting recovery
April 3rd, 2015
The European Central Bank said Thursday it is increasingly confident that its controversial bond purchase programme is helping boost the eurozone’s economic recovery, even as a top official expressed doubts about its effectiveness. In the minutes of the governing ...
Greece tells creditors it will run out of cash on April 9
April 2nd, 2015
Greece has told its creditors it will run out of money on April 9, making an appeal for more loans before reforms on which new disbursements hinge are agreed and implemented, but the request was rejected, euro zone officials said. The appeal ...
