October 2011
Note Survey: European investors are optimistic for the future of the Euro
It emerges from an poll, conducted by the Global Alliance of Investors, dealing with institutional investors in Europe, that 80% of those questioned, believe in the ability of the euro to cope with current challenges. British investors are less (...)
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October 2011
Opinion The Financial Crisis 2008 - 2011 : repetitions
We have exhausted our recourse to borrowing. Other ways must be found if we want to avoid general bankruptcy
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October 2011
News According to Goldman Sachs, 5 European banks could fail the EBA tests
In a research note that was published on Friday, the American bank estimated 50 European banks out of 91 could fail the new tests prepared by the European Banking Authority (EBE)…
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October 2011
Opinion The four potential scenarios to the Eurozone crisis
Mike Story, economist at Western Asset Management, analyses the outcome of the four potential scenarios to the Eurozone crisis: no Eurozone restructuring, orderly Eurozone restructuring, disorderly Eurozone restructuring or Eurozone (...)
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September 2011
Opinion The Euro, a foreign currency?
The Euro is, in principle, the common currency of the Europeans, however the crisis of sovereign has uncovered something completely unexpected and previously hidden. The Euro is, in fact, proving itself to be a foreign (...)
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September 2011
News Crédit Agricole strengthens balance sheets.
In a message to investors, Crédit Agricole has presented its new strategy in a context marked by the lack of confidence of markets in European banks. The group is adjusting to this new operating environment.
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September 2011
News USD funding, money market freeze, pheripheral sovereign debt...answers from BNP Paribas
Amongst the three French banks under pressure, only BNP Paribas has played the card of full transparency ...
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September 2011
News BNP Paribas denies having trouble obtaining USD funding
BNP Paribas categorically denies the statements made by a certain anonymous BNP Paribas executive who states that the bank has a liquidity problem in dollars and is participating in the creation of a market in euros to solve the (...)
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September 2011
Opinion Who is eventually irrational?
If the market was fully rational in its current pricing, policy makers could actually see current low levels of bond yields as a vote of confidence in their long-term credibility. It would then be rational for policy makers to exploit the lowest funding costs (...)
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September 2011
Reading Exit the Euro ? A dangerous idea
The Eurozone, undergoing a test of fire is rocking Europe both financially and economically. The Economist Evariste Lefeuvre proposes to a large audience a dispassionate analysis of the single currency crisis to be viewed in a positive and completely neutral (...)
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September 2011
Opinion Decline in Eurozone growth set to continue into 2012
ING Investment Management is warning that a combination of fiscal austerity, a lingering debt crisis and a slow down in external demand will translate into a fall in Eurozone GDP growth from 1.7 to 1.0.
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September 2011
News IMF experts believe European banks heavily undercapitalized!
Christine Lagarde and her team believe that European banks could need € 200 billion...
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August 2011
Note The July – August 2011 market crash. Technical analysis and long term issues!
According to Jacques Ninet, head of research at UFG-LFP, it is obvious that the monetary European Union (an imperfect Trojan horse towards federalism) only gets half the job done when it comes to forging economic (...)
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August 2011
News Gold as collateral for a participation in the Greek support plan
Will Finland jeopardize the Greek plan? The country requires collateral in exchange for its participation in the support plan. The German labour minister, Ursula Von Der Leyen, has agreed to those terms…
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August 2011
Opinion How long will Eurobonds be set aside?
The introduction of Eurobonds which is collectively supported by all Eurozone members has been presented as a means of reducing the burden of the countries impacted by the sovereign debt crisis. This is not the opinion of German authorities for the time being…for how (...)
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Greece: a possible lengthening of debt repayment -
November 2010
