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I am getting prepared, you see. September is just around the corner and it will be the last European Central Bank meeting presided over by Mario Draghi, the Superman of Europe. My sense is that it is going to be one last, "Whatever it takes," as virtually all of the economies of Europe are hav...
The European Economies It's not really valid to talk of a European economy, that being exactly the problem there is with the euro. Having the one currency means that monetary conditions must be the same across those different European economies. An example of this is that the UK economy seem...
By David F. Hoffman, CFA In June of 1984, I was a young portfolio manager finding myself at odds with the wisdom of the day. Yields on 30-year Treasuries had rebounded from 10% to 14% as inflation had bounced from 2.5% and was running at just over 4%. The leading sages of the day were very...
A central banker's nightmare is losing control of inflation expectations. Whereas decades ago, the challenge facing major central banks was reining in overly high inflation expectations - a process that ushered in central banks' independence and inflation targets - the European Central Bank's ...
By Bert Colijn , Senior Economist, Eurozone Q2 GDP growth in the eurozone slows to 0.2%. Clearly, the economy is expanding at a slow cruising speed that seems too low for inflation to increase quickly towards the ECB target. And that gives the Bank more ammunition to act in the autum...
Elliott R. Morss, Ph.D. ©All Rights Reserved Introduction The economic prospects for the Eurozone are not good: slow growth, lagging investments and high unemployment levels. Projected GDP growth this year is projected at only 1.2% with unemployment for the region averaging 7.7%. ...
By Peter Vanden Houte , Chief Economist Belgium, Eurozone Although the eurozone economy is rapidly losing momentum, growth in 2020 might be supported by a higher number of working days. While insufficient to reverse the slowdown, extra working days are likely to add 0.2 percentage po...
By Andrew Mulliner, CFA The July 25 European Central Bank ((ECB)) meeting was billed as the most important ECB meeting of the last few years. Today's statement and press conference, read in isolation, mark a significant statement of intent regarding the ECB's willingness and ability to "do...
As noted in these pages on Wednesday, objects in motion tend to stay in motion , and so it was for US equities during a week that saw investors easily navigate earnings and cast a dismissive eye towards fraught domestic politics. US stocks managed a solid gain, rising for the sixth week in ...
It is ironic that the setting for his speech was London . The UK, of course, never gave up the pound in favor of adopting the euro. Still, as the years drag on the biggest menace to Europe's common currency isn't a profligate Greek government nor the unfavorable productivity of Club Med. The ...
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