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Financial Times (January 9)

2024/ 01/ 09 by jd in Global News

“Unemployment in the eurozone fell back to a record low of 6.4 per cent in November, defying recent economic gloom after the number of jobless people fell almost 100,000 from a month earlier.” With the job market “proving more resilient than expected,” the ECB may worry more “about the timing of a potential cut in interest rates” as “rapid wage growth could keep price pressures elevated.”

 

Wall Street Journal (June 16)

2023/ 06/ 17 by jd in Global News

“In just 24 hours this past week the central banks of the world’s three biggest economic blocs came to starkly different conclusions, with the eurozone raising rates, the U.S. on hold and the Chinese cutting. It’s getting harder for investors to understand the global economy—and potentially getting harder for the Federal Reserve to put a lid on inflation.”

 

Financial Times (April 22)

2020/ 04/ 23 by jd in Global News

“The collapse of the eurozone would be a catastrophe. The ECB is the one institution able and willing to act. Governments should back it.”

 

Financial Times (June 5)

2018/ 06/ 07 by jd in Global News

“A clear lesson from last week’s sharp sell-off in Italian bond markets: the ‘doom loop’ that creates a direct link between eurozone countries and their banking systems is still a powerful force.”

 

Fund Strategy (June 1)

2017/ 06/ 03 by jd in Global News

“European sceptics are being forced to acknowledge the recovery in a region that they have failed to understand politically, as the eurozone enjoys positive PMIs and employment figures while rejecting populist politics…. April saw the fifth largest allocation shift from US to European equities since the start of the eurozone in 1999.”

 

Financial Times (February 13)

2017/ 02/ 13 by jd in Global News

“Greece is as sick as ever and its agony goes on and on….  Barring wholly improbable changes in the politics of European crisis management, Greece will earn the unwanted distinction by late 2019 of having spent more of its eurozone existence in an intensive care unit than outside.”

 

Financial Times (April 12)

2016/ 04/ 13 by jd in Global News

“There are clear practical limits to cutting rates indefinitely; and in the eurozone at least, the policy may be close to its political limits. The question now is what should take its place…. Opponents of negative rates need to spell out the alternatives.”

 

New York Times (July 26)

2015/ 07/ 27 by jd in Global News

“While the eurozone may have temporarily avoided a Greek exit, it is hard to see how a deal that requires more spending cuts, higher taxes and only vague promises of debt relief can restore the crippled economy enough to keep Greece in the currency union.”

 

Financial Times (March 30)

2015/ 03/ 30 by jd in Global News

“The real eurozone problems are hidden under the bonnet…. The most important adjustment that needs to take place is a convergence of prices and labour costs.”

 

New York Times (February 18)

2015/ 02/ 18 by jd in Global News

“The eurozone ministers may find it difficult to make concessions to a nation they perceive as profligate and ungrateful. Nevertheless, they must still “come to grips with the fact that cutting Greece some slack now is the only good choice they have.”

 

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