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Business investment up to 25.8% in the euro area
April 9th, 2020
In the fourth quarter of 2019, before COVID-19 containment measures began to be widely introduced by Member States, the business investment rate was 25.8% in the euro area, compared with 23.7% in the previous quarter. The business profit share ...
GBP/NZD At Resistance/Bearish Zone – Elliott Wave Analysis
April 8th, 2020
After a strong and five-legged decline in 2015, GBP/NZD started to trade into bullish, however overlapping, trading out a W-X-Y corrective structure for a higher degree wave B). We see price now at possible resistance and reversal point, at ...
A primer for gold newbies
April 7th, 2020
The purpose of this article is purely educational. Increasingly, the wider public is turning to gold in a spontaneous reaction to financial and economic problems that have become suddenly apparent, hastened by the spread of the coronavirus. For ...
Coronavirus: Call for single EU tracking app with data protection
April 7th, 2020
Europe’s data protection watchdog has called for a single coronavirus app to be used across the EU, instead of every country making its own. Several countries are developing tracking apps, but privacy advocates warn of the dangers they might ...
VAT exemption thresholds in Europe
April 7th, 2020
Countries around the world have been introducing various fiscal measures to counteract the economic distress caused by COVID-19. One measure—among many others—has been to make changes to Value-Added Taxes (VAT), such as delaying payments, speeding up refunds, or reducing ...
Hourly labour costs ranged from €6.0 to €44.7 across the EU Member States in 2019
March 31st, 2020
In 2019, average hourly labour costs in the whole economy (excluding agriculture and public administration) were estimated to be €27.7 in the European Union of 27 Member States (EU) and €31.4 in the euro area. However, the average masks ...
Elliott wave analysis: AUDUSD and NZDUSD Turning Bearish
March 30th, 2020
AUDUSD is currently recovering, however in an overlapping fashion, which suggest a corrective recovery to be in play. We are looking at a wave 4) of a higher degree, which can be near completion with its w-x-y rally. Possible ...
Gold Is Now “Unobtanium”
March 30th, 2020
The Wall Street Journal just published the kind of article gold bugs dream of seeing in the mainstream press. Here’s an excerpt: “Coronavirus Sparks a Global Gold Rush Epic shortage spooks doomsday preppers and bankers alike; ‘Unaffordium and unobtanium.’ ...
Interesting pattern on USD/CHF points higher – Elliott wave analysis
March 27th, 2020
On the weekly chart of USD/CHF, we can see that price was for the last five years making a sideways, and overlapping price activity; an Elliott wave running triangle in B. This triangle can now be completed based on ...
Payments panic and the ending of fiat currencies
March 24th, 2020
The unilateral response from governments to the coronavirus is to helicopter money to people and their businesses in unlimited quantities. Their priority is to keep the debt-driven Keynesian show on the road, and policy makers are approaching the task ...