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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The Sunday Times writes that Ireland could default on its debt . Once called the Celtic Tiger, Ireland now faces mounting problems, on the back of banking problems. The cost of buying insurance against Irish government bonds rose to 350bp. It has almost tripled in a week. Simon Johnson, the former chief ...
Professor Wim Moesen zegt in Trends dat de Belgische begroting niet moet worden aangepakt tijdens de crisis: Om de benarde situatie van de federale begroting aan te pakken, wordt links en rechts gepleit voor een nieuw stabiliteitspact. Maar volgens hoogleraar overheidsfinanciën Wim Moesen (KU Leuven) is ...
De Griekse regering grijpt diepgaand in: enkele weken geleden kondigde de regering van de socialistische premier George Papandreou voor 7 miljard euro maatregelen aan, nu komt daar nog eens bijna 5 miljard bovenop. Om de uit de hand gelopen begrotingssituatie onder controle te krijgen gaan de belastingen omhoog ...
Ik hou mijn antennes open voor alle creatieve oplossingen om uit de crisis te geraken. Dit voorstel lichtte vanzelfsprekend op mijn economenradar op: Ierland wil zich uit economische crisis fietsen Bron: belga, via De Standaard De Ierse regering, die blootgesteld wordt aan een van de ergste economische ...
Gemini, the immortal twins Castor and Pollux, in this case Dublin and Cork. We picked up an interesting story from out of Bloomberg with the Irish unit of RBS liquidating its Dublin/Cork real estate portfolio. Royal Bank of Scotland Plc’s Irish unit offered to sell properties, including 640 apartments and a hotel, for about ...
T+3 Spanish bail-out, emergency rescue , credit-line and we are back to square 1 if Spanish yields are an indicator. Apparently markets are not convinced about the credibility of the fire wall currently put into place ; or are awaiting more clarity and reassurances, something the so-called master plan might ...
For once we have some good news to report, a glimmer of hope. Last week, Ireland managed to come to the international bond market on which it made a partial buy-back of existing debt (2014) and managed to roll it over into 2015 @ 4,9%. And it was a success with an announcement of more buy-backs in the pipeline. The Irish drama and ...
