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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Week Ahead Calendar: 27/01/2012 to 03/02/2012 – Schedules and Optimism
Once again, please find below a list of the eventful days ahead. The main sources are Unicredit’s Weekly Focus, Forex Trading weekly calendar, the EU’s general calendar, the EU’s national issuance calendar and many others, all of which I advise you to consult directly. I found … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Week Ahead
Tagged Debt auctions, EU Council, EU Council Meetings, France, Germany, Greece, Inflation, Italy, Labour Market, Sovereign Debt Crisis, Spain
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Weekly Bond Yield developments in the Euro Area (W4.2012): Greece Negotiations and Portuguese Yields
In the week that that passed the Euro-Zone economy was marked by an emphasis (of the media and of analysts) on positive data releases, both in Europe and in the USA. On the down side, fruitless Greek PSI negotiations caused … Continue reading
Oil Market, Exposure to the Middle East & the Saudi Arabia-Iran-US axis
Given the ongoing straight of Hormuz crisis I thought it might be interesting gathering some information. The interest arises from the potential human and economic losses associated with any further escalation. Here I’ll focus on the economic aspect in the … Continue reading
Posted in World Affairs
Tagged Game of Chicken, Game Theory, Iran, Oil, Straight of Hormuz, USA
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Leverage and Balance Sheet Management: Reserve Ratios and VaR
Having previously considered how banks intermediate between investors and their investments, FRB and bank runs, and having shown that overlending is likely to be an equilibrium result of the financial market, I now turn my attention to how banks, among … Continue reading
Market Volatility: with thanks to True Economics
True Economics, has very interesting charts of 3-sigma-plus stock market volatility accross the UK, France, Germany, the US and world stock markets. To argue that the ongoing period of volatility represents a repricing of stock markets, associated with the financial … Continue reading
Week Ahead Calendar: 20/01/2012 to 27/01/2012 – Schedules and Hopes
Please find below a list of the eventful days ahead. The main sources are Unicredit’s Weekly Focus, Forex Trading weekly calendar, the EU’s national issuance calendar and many others, all of which I advise you to consult directly. I found Unicredit’s to … Continue reading
Posted in Week Ahead
Tagged Banking, Banking crisis, Calendars, Confidence, Monetary Economics, Week Ahead
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Portuguese Labour Market Reforms: The Table of Contents
The Portuguese Government reached a “Growth, Competitiveness and Employment Compromise” today with social partners (employers and employee organisations). The daily “Sol” made a copy of the text available online, in Portuguese. Labour market reform is extremely important for the recovery … Continue reading
Asymmetries of Information, Overlending and the Output gap
I have recently discussed Banking intermediation, FRB and bank-runs in the context of the Diamond 1997 model in line with my effort to understand the banking/financial sector and record some of the knowledge I acquired over the years. When, in … Continue reading
Posted in Aides Memoire, Banking, Economic Concepts
Tagged Asymmetries of information, Banking, Banking crisis, Commercial banking, De Meza and Webb 1987, financial insights, Financial markets, Modigliani and Jaffee 1969, Monetary Economics, Output gap, Overinvestment, Overlending, Stiglitz, Stiglitz and Webb 1981
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Euro-Update (30): Markit Surveys, US-Iran tensions & €Z interventions
The web is awash with news reports about regional and world economics. The focus is on the recent Markit Survey results, published in the last 2 days, as well as the US-Iran tensions, bond and forex markets. Here’s my overview. … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Euro-zone Update, Uncategorized
Tagged CBPP, Covered Bond Purchasing Programme, ECB, Iran, LTRO, Markit, Oil, PMIs, Securities Market Programme, SMP, Sovereign Debt Crisis, USA
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