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- As Italy Enters Its Fourth Recession Since 2000, Who Will Bail Out Unicredit?
- Edward Hugh submits: Italy, which is still the eurozone's third biggest economy, slipped into a recession in the third quarter. The Italian economy fell into what is now its fourth recession in less than a decade as gross domestic product shrank 0.5 percent from its level in the second...
- External links 2008-11-14
- Italian Recession All But Certain
- Edward Hugh submits: Italy probably entered a recession in the second half of 2008, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank board member Mario Draghi indicated last month. After GDP contracted 0.3 percent in the second quarter, ``the most recent indicators confirm negative signs,'' Draghi said on Oct. 21....
- External links 2008-11-10
- Colonialism In Reverse: Libya Bails Out Italy's UniCredit SpA
- Edward Hugh submits: Taking my cue from the worthy and well thumbed play-book of the Brothers Coen, I thought every now and again I might follow up all those, long, desperately serious, and highly indigestible posts about how Italy should now be considered to be "No Country For Old...
- External links 2008-10-19
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- Peak Retail Sales in Italy?
- Edward Hugh submits: What follows is the first of three posts which will appear this week on the "peak retail sales" phenomenon - one on them will look at Italy, another will look at Germany, and the third will examine the Hungarian case. The basic idea is that as...
- External links 2008-09-02
- Eurozone Recession on the Horizon?
- Edward Hugh submits: Is the first zone-wide recession in the short history of the Eurozone about to be registered? Certainly the flash PMI estimates for August give the impression that it might. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc's composite index came in at 48 after 47.8 reading...
- External links 2008-08-21
- UniCredit Has Yet To Incur Significant Losses on Russia's Interbank Market
- Edward Hugh submits: Well it must come as something of a relief for any Italian readers I have to learn that UniCredit SpA (UNCFF.PK), Italy's biggest bank by assets, has definitely not incurred losses on the Russian interbank market. Although perhaps I should rephrase that by adding just one...
- External links 2008-11-17
- Santander's Banif Fund Suspends Payments
- Edward Hugh submits: "I would now expect several eurozone countries with weak banking sectors to get into serious difficulties as the crisis continues. There is a risk of cascading sovereign defaults. If this was limited to countries of the size of Ireland or Greece, one could solve this problem...
- External links 2009-02-17
- Unicredit: Achilles Heel of the Italian Economy
- Edward Hugh submits: At the present time the Achilles heel of the Italian economy has a name, and it is called Unicredit (UNCFF.PK). In a number of posts on this blog (here, here, here, here) I have tried to draw attention to the potential problem the deteriorating balance sheet...
- External links 2008-12-22
- Germany's Economy: Is It Really Powering Ahead?
- Edward Hugh submits: Well, euphoria in Germany is certainly on the rebound, with a sudden surge in the ZEW investor confidence index and newspaper articles all over the place predicting the imminent renaissance of European economic growth, despite the fact that in 3 of the 5 big European economies...
- External links 2009-08-23
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