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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
- German Economy Now Officially in a Recession
- Edward Hugh submits: The German economy contracted more than most analysts expected in the third quarter, entering what now appears to be its worst recession in at least 12 years as both exports and domestic spending continue to fall. German gross domestic product dropped by a seasonally adjusted 0.5...
- External links 2008-11-13
- 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
- German Recession Now Nearly Certain
- Edward Hugh submits: ``The worst is still to come for manufacturers,'' said Carsten Brzeski an economist at ING Group in Brussels. ``The industrialized world is heading for a recession and the German economy is in the middle of the storm.'' Industrial production in Germany declined the most in almost...
- External links 2008-11-07
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- 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
- Japan's Grim and Bear It 2009 Outlook
- Edward Hugh submits: Things in Japan are looking grim and getting grimmer, and it doesn't seem they will be getting less grim anytime soon. To give you some idea of what this means, only this week we learned that Japan’s steel production fell 28 percent in December. This was...
- External links 2009-01-27
- German Consumer and Investor Confidence Falls
- Edward Hugh submits: German business and consumer confidence fell more than economists forecast in August, raising the likelihood that Europe's largest economy may now be steadily slipping into a recession. Business Climate Worsens In August by Edward Hugh
- External links 2008-08-27
- Green Shoots in Germany and Estonia?
- Edward Hugh submits: Well, I am busying myself this morning scratching around looking for green shoots in Turkey. But as I was digging, I couldn't help notice this coming in over the radar from Germany, courtesy of Bloomberg: German exports fell more than economists forecast in April...
- External links 2009-06-09
- South Africa's Recession Continues Even as the Rand Surges
- Edward Hugh submits: "The banking sector in South Africa has insubstantial leverage and did not enter in to excessively risky lending practices that were the hallmarks of the credit-boom days. However, South Africa’s Current Account Deficit remains wide and its ability to service its short-term debt is on the...
- External links 2009-08-24
- Japanese Economy Contracts in Q2 2008
- Edward Hugh submits: Japan's economy contracted in the second quarter of 2008, bringing the country to the threshold of its first recession in six years, as exports fell and consumers spent less. Gross domestic product was up by 1% over the second quarter of 2007, but down by 0.6%...
- External links 2008-08-18
- Japan: Industrial Production Slumps; Outright Deflation Draws Closer
- Edward Hugh submits: Japan’s recession evidently deepened even further in November as industrial output fell at the fastest pace in 55 years. Production plunged 8.1 percent month on month from October Trade Ministry data and was down an enormous 16.2% year on year. For an economy which lives from...
- External links 2008-12-26
- Japan: Leading Indicator Drops Again; Machinery Orders Fall
- Edward Hugh submits: The Japanese government conceded yesterday that Japan's longest running postwar period of economic expansion might now be over as it reported a drop in its key measure of underlying economic conditions for June. The June coincident indicators index fell a preliminary 1.6 per cent and the...
- External links 2008-08-08
- Italian Business Confidence, Retail Sales Fall as Bond Spreads Rise
- Edward Hugh submits: Italian business confidence fell to a record low in February as concern that the fourth recession in seven years will dampen orders and more than offset lower oil prices and borrowing costs. The ISAE Institute’s business confidence index dropped to 63.2, its lowest since the index...
- External links 2009-02-26
- Japan's Industrial Slump
- Edward Hugh submits: Japanese manufacturing output fell in January by a record 10 per cent month-on-month while new job offers declined 18 per cent, reflecting the deepening recession in the world’s second biggest economy. Industrial production was down a whopping 30.8 per cent year-on-year, as manufacturers of vehicles, electronics...
- External links 2009-02-27
- Germany's Economy: How Did They Get Into This Mess?
- Edward Hugh submits: Everything in Germany is going up, except it seems the real economy - and except of course prices, which were stationary in May (that is a change of 0% year on year - the lowest inflation rate for over 20 years). Anyway, today it was the...
- External links 2009-06-16
- Cliff Hanging in Bulgaria
- Edward Hugh submits: click to enlarge The International Monetary Fund this week forecast that the recession in Bulgaria would be deeper than it previously predicted. Such a decision should come as no surprise to anyone, since the country's economic dynamics in both the short and long term...
- External links 2009-07-12
- More Comedy from the Spanish Banking System
- Edward Hugh submits: Going through the Variant Perception report on the perilous state of Spain's banking system, I couldn't help stopping and thinking hard about this point from the Spanish newspaper Expansion: The valuation of the guarantees of the mortgage book of the cajas and banks and of its...
- External links 2009-08-25
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