Today, we have reserved a guest post for Jan De Blonde who is very actively engaged in sustainable farmland investment abroad. Jan is ...
My friend the equity racehorse sent me me the following interesting link which appeared on Dutch television and which basically ...
Vorige zondag (6 mei 2012) verscheen het volgend interview in De Zondag:
Elk jaar omtrent deze tijd publiceert BP zijn Statistical Review of World Energy. Bijna 50 pagina’s grotendeels gevuld met tabellen ...
Door een abrupt beëindigde skivakantie (nauwelijks 50 meter op de latten gestaan) bracht ik de rest van de week haast immobiel en al ...
Well, it's not exactly Moody's but more precisely Fitch, sending out messages which are "surprising" to say the least. Remember ...
Davos, setting of the Thomas Mann novel "Der Zauberberg" and sheltering famous people throughout history such as ...
Following our adventures in today's every changing moods in the world of finance, it's not a bad thing to assess volatility as a ...
You may remember I wrote a piece on Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) , Heineken and Fraser & Neave (F&N) when I was in Singapore earlier ...
My dear friend Sideshow Bob sent me a short note which I think deserves some attention. It opens up the discussion on one of the most ...
Geen kat die deze stelling zal betwisten, maar de impact ervan op de Chinese economie wordt vermoedelijk zwaar onderschat. We hebben ...
De kogel is door de kerk, iedereen van ons kan straks aandeelhouder van Facebook worden. Intekenen op een IPO is echter niet altijd ...
Apple kwam de afgelopen week met de langverwachte medeling over hun spaarpot van 100 miljard $. Een mogelijke overname is nog niet in ...
On March 14th, the Media Innovation Center was launched (under the wings of the IBBT) and baptized 'Mix'. Its goal is to support and ...
Yesterday Fitch released a report with some arithmetics and outlook on the ageing population and how the developed west so far has ...
According to the World Economic Forum, Canadian banks have been ranked as the soundest and most safe banks world-wide, this for 5 ...
Gemini, the immortal twins Castor and Pollux, in this case Dublin and Cork. We picked up an interesting story from out of Bloomberg ...
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Interesting Fed research on the parallel between Greece and Argentina. And while the US Fed of San Francisco is trying to avoid alarmist conclusions, the Greek crisis has not ended yet.
Dit is het rapport van Natixis, waarnaar Di Rupo gisteren verwees in een speech in Antwerpen. In het rapport staat een zeer ruwe (en foute) berekening van de regionale transfers. Ook de regionale BBP cijfers in het rapport maken de beginnersfout om geen rekening te houden met administratieve hoofdzetels van ...
Ben Bernanke kept his promise and delivered. He didn't however gave as much as markets had hoped for. In golf terms, rather strike a couple of times with the new putter/wedge instead of using an iron 9 and hence completely miss the hole. Main question remains : a deliberate gradual strategy from now on, leaving the option for QE3 ...
The Fed will buy 600Bn USD debt ... "...the Committee intends to purchase a further 600 billion of longer-term Treasury securities by the end of the second quarter of 2011, a pace of about $75 billion per month. The Committee will regularly review the pace of its securities purchases and the overall size of the ...
Het decennium van de schildpad
From what I read, Merkel might get at least half of what she wanted: a participation of private investors (bond holders) in case of a bailout... The other half seems that more money will have to be put on the table. From the press release: Rules will be adapted to provide for a case by case participation of ...
Financial markets were eagerly awaiting the ECB press conference for more supporting measures concerning beleaguered indebted countries. Concerning high expectations on a European version of Bernanke, ie printing money and speeding up purchases of sovereign bonds, markets did not really get what they were after. As far as the ECB ...
In a rare appearance before national broadcast, Ben Bernanke yesterday on CBS gave comment on the state of the economy and his intentions further up the road. Apparently it took 1 bad number - November pay-rolls released last Friday - to ring the alarm bells inside the FED. Just 1 month after QE2 has been announced, it seems QE3 is ...
"Don't fight the FED, they always come up with a perfect put option". So far so good when it comes to equities and some other assets. One exception : Mr Bond doesn't seem to go along anymore.
S&P has revised its outlook for Belgium from stable to negative. "We believe that Belgium's prolonged domestic political uncertainty poses risks to its government's credit standing, especially given the difficult market conditions many eurozone governments are facing" Some remarks: - S&P is lagging behind ...
België leidt aan een bepaalde vorm van schizofrenie.Tegen het buitenland verdedigen we een beeld dat de interne politieke twisten een deel van onze cultuur zijn, niets om zich zorgen te maken. We zeggen ook tegen de buitenlandse media dat onze budgettaire problemen niet zo groot zijn, onder het gemiddelde van de rest van Europa. We ...
De wet van Gresham is aan een demonstratie bezig in Europa: het goede geld wordt in snel tempo achter het slechte geworpen. De ECB is ontmaagd, Maastricht verkracht en de euro verdrachmet.
According to the CDS premia (source: FT)
"Camelot, Camelot, Camelot !!!", yell the Knights of the Round Table when finally arriving at King Arthur's residence. Their optimism is quickly put down to earth when Concorde, the brave carrier, mumbles "it's only a model." FED Governor Yellen to some extend shared the same kind of enthusiasm last week, and equally we tend to ...
De regeringsvorming in België moet een dubbele kloof overbruggen. De Noord/Zuidkloof is de eerste. De taalproblematiek is wellicht echter minder ernstig dan de Link/Rechts tegenstellingen, een tweede kloof.Door de uitputtingsslag die nu bezig is, groeit de roep om een snelle oplossing. Deze snel op te richten regering moet met ...
Speaking on CNBC at a FDIC sponsored forum last week, FED chairman Bernanke was asked how quantittative easing could be called a success in view of rising interest rates and commodity price spikes. His answer revealed that the FED now officially admits having a third mandate : "Our policies have contributed to a stronger ...
The latest string of monthly figures on foreign holdings of US Treasuries gives some surprising results : Of the big global players, only Japan and Brazil keep on accumulating US debt at a steady pace. Opec, Russia and the Carribean seem to be losing interest while China apparently heralds status quo, if we believe the official ...
