Search Results for: Euro area
Europe Needs A New Source of Oil and Gas, Fast
September 5th, 2014
Summer is over and many Europeans may have to keep warm this coming winter by thinking about their summer holidays while wrapped in blankets, praying for a short winter or for the world to come to its senses. It ...
Eurozone: Draghi’s new deal
September 3rd, 2014
About halfway through the speech, Mario Draghi stumbled. The European Central Bank president had reached a passage in his prepared remarks about the worrisome trend in inflation afflicting much of the continent. Few central bankers are more aware of ...
Free Money for Germany is Bad News for Euro
August 21st, 2014
When investors are willing to lend money to Germany for two years for free, at a zero interest rate, you know the euro project is in trouble again. Germany yesterday sold 4.04 billion euros ($5.3 billion) of notes that ...
Dollar Gains to Almost 9-Month High Versus Euro on Policy
August 8th, 2014
The dollar strengthened to an almost nine-month high against the Euro after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi signalled monetary policy will diverge from the U.S. for an extended period of time. The greenback rose against all but one ...
Gold steady as dollar, European equities firm
August 5th, 2014
Gold prices steadied on Tuesday as the dollar benefited from soft euro zone economic data which pushed the euro lower, while upbeat corporate earnings reports lifted European equity markets. Spot gold was at $1,288.89 an ounce at 1239 GMT, ...
European Stocks Advance as BMW Beats Earnings Forecasts
August 5th, 2014
European stocks rose, rebounding from four days of losses, as companies including Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and Credit Agricole SA reported better-than-expected quarterly profit. U.S. stock futures were little changed, while Asian shares fell. BMW and Deutsche Post AG ...
Will Europe start to lend again?
August 4th, 2014
The European Central Bank will take over supervising banks in Helsinki and Lisbon in November after finding out unprecedented scrutiny to their books. The reason for doing so is to restore confidence in the euro zone’s banks, battered by ...
BSkyB’s £4.9bn Sky Europe deal includes HSF and A&O firms
July 28th, 2014
Herbert Smith Freehills and Allen & Overy are among the firms to advise on BSkyB’s £4.9bn takeover of Rupert Murdoch’s pay TV companies in Germany and Italy. The acquisitions mark a strategic change for BSkyB, which is hoping to ...
Implementing the new European accounting directive
July 17th, 2014
In implementing the New European Accounting Directive, the Member States have choices which give them the chance to improve accounting in their country and those choices should be more evidence-based. This was the main conclusion of a roundtable facilitated ...
Industrial Production Drops in Eurozone
July 14th, 2014
Industrial production in the eurozone slipped in May, according to data published on Monday, reinforcing concern that a tentative economic recovery is already stalling. Factory output fell 1.1 percent in the 18 countries of the currency bloc compared with ...
