Dr. Brycz, Professor of Microeconomics at the University of Gdańsk, on the commodity prices
The purpose of the austerity measures is to achieve a more or less balanced government's budget and, ideally, move towards reduction in the sovereign debt.
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What we are currently observing is that the pressure on the Euro is not subsiding, and thus we are seeing summit after summit.
First of all, the Japanese Yen is to certain extent safe haven, because while Japan has a very large debt problems as well, it is not acute, that means so far Japan has managed to finance its deficit domestically.
Definitely the Euro bloc crisis has impacted on the Swedish economy to a meaningful extent, especially through export, but also through confidence channels.
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If we look beyond the latest very disappointing PMI data, which fell into the contractionary territory declining from 54.5 to 46.3 in June, the overall impact so far has been rather minimal.
The Aussie and the Kiwi both have been significantly outperforming for the past three-four trading days.
I do not expect anything new to come out of the EU economic summit and I think the currency market has already to a large extent priced that in.
I think the Cable might be influenced to the extent when the Euro is under pressure against the Dollar, it would tend to pull Sterling down with it.
At the moment we see some Dollar weakness against G10 currencies, or more specifically against the Euro and other commodity currencies.
It was surprisingly discouraging that EUR/USD did not react more positively on the Greek elections results.
Some experts proposed an outside-the-box solution to the Eurozone debt crisis with Germany, being highly competitive, leaving Eurozone.
By channelling funds from savers to borrowers, a financial system plays a vital role in an economy's growth process.
Currently the trend is definitely worsening with a continuing rise of unemployment.
We do not except the prices to consolidate over here, and we do not naturally think price will go up sustainably, because the macro environment has a lot of question marks.
We have seen quite strong swings in the Aussie, because over the past couple of weeks risk aversion has weighed heavily on the Australian Dollar.
India's international trade performance has dwindled in recent past, partially due to the world economy turmoil, and equally due to domestically retrograde policies.
We do not think so, because the sentiment is not that negative.
Recently the Sterling has not performed particularly well against the Dollar, but it has been perceived as safe haven against the Euro
The strongest contagion channel is the oil price, as well as potentially intensified capital outflow.
I think 80 is a comfortable level for USD/JPY at the moment.
The Euro is very weak at the moment. All the concerns about possible Greek exit from the Eurozone are hurting the single currency.