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Low oil prices and supportive policy to drive recovery in Eurozone
March 12th, 2015
After a year of tentative recovery in 2014, the Eurozone has moved into 2015 aided by two important growth drivers – sharply lower oil prices and QE according to the March 2015 issue of the EY Eurozone Forecast (EEF). ...
European equity funds to draw strong inflows on ECB move
March 12th, 2015
European stocks are poised to become the darlings of 2015 on the back of the European Central Bank‘s 1 trillion euro government bond-buying programme. The ECB’s programme, which began on Monday, will likely spur already surging demand for European ...
Remarks by Jeroen Dijsselbloem at the press conference following the Eurogroup meeting of 9 March 2015
March 10th, 2015
Remarks by Jeroen Dijsselbloem: Let me first report on our discussion on fiscal surveillance. In our meeting of 8 December we identified risks that seven Member States might not comply with the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) in 2015 ...
ECB Buying Starts New Era for Bonds, Euro
March 9th, 2015
Currency heads toward parity with dollar; paying to hold debt The arrival of the European Central Bank’s huge bond-buying plan Monday is forcing investors to prepare for the once unthinkable: paying to hold debt issued by the eurozone’s one-time ...
Yanis Varoufakis: “We will never leave the euro”
February 27th, 2015
Finance Minister stresses that “for the first time we are becoming the authors of our future” The Minister of Finances Yanis Varoufakis stated that the recent Eurogroup agreement was a major success, in an exclusive interview he gave to Giorgos Padadakis on ANT1. Mr. ...
Greek finance minister’s letter to the Eurogroup
February 24th, 2015
Following is the text of Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis‘s letter to Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem outlining Greece’s proposed reforms. “Dear President of the Eurogroup, In the Eurogroup of 20 February 2015 the Greek government was invited to present ...
Investors Still Don’t Think Greece Will Exit the Euro
February 20th, 2015
As Greece heads toward 11th-hour funding talks with its euro-area membership on the line, bondholders are surprisingly sanguine about its failure so far to secure a deal. Forget the strategists at Commerzbank AG who say there’s a 50 percent ...
Europe Is `Very Attractive’ For Investment, Ross Says
February 19th, 2015
Wilbur Ross, chairman of WL Ross & Co., talks about investment opportunities in Europe and strategy. Ross, speaking with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television’s “In the Loop,” also discusses Greece’s negotiations with euro-area members over a loan extension…View video ...
Dark-Pool Trade Size Doubles in Europe as Venues Hunt Blocks
February 4th, 2015
Even before new regulations revamp trading in 2017, Europe’s private stock markets are already returning to their original purpose: handling big trades. The average size of trades on European dark pools doubled to 11,403 euros ($13,050) in December from ...
Eurogroup meeting of 26 January 2015: Remarks by Jeroen Dijsselbloem
January 27th, 2015
Good evening and welcome to this press conference. This was our first Eurogroup of the New Year and already a lot has happened. Of course we discussed the latest news, which was the outcome of last nights Greek elections ...
