The European Commission has tempered expectations and pointed out that the index itself remains at an overall high level and other indicators, such as industrial capacity utilisation, remain well above their average level over….
September 2018
Looking across the Atlantic, one has to start thinking that Europe is becoming a sideshow to the Pacific Rim countries. Relations between the US, China and Russia are of greater importance to the global economy…
Chart of the Week: Week 35, 2018: Business Start-Ups by City
Since 2011, new business formation has outstripped business closures, with the gap widening until the beginning of 2016…
Chart of the Week: European CFO Risk Assessment
CFOs of the largest European nations, excluding the UK, do not express explicit concern about the effects of Brexit…
August 2018
The market setback for the technology companies seems mostly to have been driven by a relatively small amount of selling into a market that is suffering from a lack of so-called ‘market makers’. These thin and volatile…
May 2018
Since putting pen to paper in February, there has been a more than usual amount of trivia in the headlines. The global economic expansion has steadied and in many areas, the rapid growth of last year has dropped to more realistic single digit figures…