Dukascopy is carrying on the research on the commodity markets and has interviewed Ziemowit Bednarek, Assistant Professor of Finance at University of Melbourne, Australia, whose current research focuses mainly on understanding how the real side of the economy affects financial markets. Professor Bednarek has shared his view on the factors influences commodity prices and compared the current situation with the
While the European debt crisis is remaining the most popular concern among investors, Dukascopy has interviewed an expert in Political Economy, Grant Amyot, Professor of Economics and Political Economy at Queen's University, Canada, to find out about the anticipation of the credit crunch.
In continuation of our Friday's topic on commodity markets, Dukascopy has interviewed another expert in the financial markets field, GГјnther Rehme, Assistant Professor of Economics at Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. During the talk the Porfessor has provided the forecasts for the commodity markets and recommendations for the investors.
Despite the gloomy forecasts of a new global recession, the commodity markets are not showing the patterns of the pre-crisis sell-off in 2008. For instance, Brent oil and gold even though down from their 2011 peaks, don't witness panic behaviour of market participants so far. In order to find out the expert's opinion on the possible drivers of the current commodity markets and
Ongoing European market turmoil keeps the uncertainty level high making investors and taxpayers even annoyed while no clear answers are given on developments in the nearest future. In order to find out the expert's opinion on the matter, Dukascopy has interviewed Malcolm Sawyer, Professor of Economics at University of Leeds.
"Euro will not collapse. If it did, a huge damage would be done to all national economies of the Eurozone. Most of the trade relations that have been successful for the last 10 years would disappear spontaneously. Consequently, this would reduce investment together with consumption and would enlarge uncertainty."
Although last Thursday the Eurozone policy makers managed to come to a consensus to enhance the EFSF up to 1 trillion euros and to write down 50% of the Greek debt, the economists are nevertheless concerned about the European economies' growth outlook. Such decision is perceived by many experts as only a temporary solution to a given problem; they also
After a severe financial collapse witnessed in 2008 the global economy is yet again experiencing slow growth. The media headlines are full of a new recession forecasts. In this relation, Dukascopy has interviewed an expert in Economics, Dr. Prof. Marc Crosby, Professor of Economics at S P Jain Center of Management in Singapore.
"We do not expect a full blown recession as our base case but it is certainly conceivable" - Chris Walker, Foreign Exchange Strategist at UBS After 2-3 years of humbled growth since the breakdown of the previous deep economic downturn, the media headlines are again full of a new recession forecasts. In this respect, Dukascopy has interviewed an expert in finance, Chris Walker,
"I fully agree with IMF: the Eurozone banks must be recapitalized" - Josef Marbacher, Professor of Banking and Finance at University of Applied Sciences North-western Switzerland and a former economist at the Swiss National Bank After the Franco-Belgian Dexia bank's shares record plunge by 38% on 10 October, the Board of Directors has approved of its "healthy" units sale to the Belgian government and confirmed
"The bail-out [by BRICs] could have an indirect negative impact on the Euro zone" - Andreas Rasche Dukascopy continues to interview experts on the topic of European sovereign debt crisis. Andreas Rasche, Assistant Professor of Business in Society at Warwick Business School, Visiting Professor at European Business School in Germany and a former Consultant to the United Nations Global Compact Office, has
"The reform of rating agencies is of course desirable, but difficult" - Philippe RaimbourgIn light of the recent massive sovereign countries' and banks' rating downgrades, Dukascopy TV has interviewed and asked opinions on the role and importance of rating agencies of Philippe Raimbourg, Professor of Finance at University of Paris PanthГ©on Sorbonne. 1) A common society perception is that Rating Agencies have
With the mounting level of economic problems the Euro zone is in dire need of external financial aid. Among the top potential providers of credit analysts highlight the BRIC countries that have accumulated huge foreign currency reserves. In this respect Dukascopy has asked the experts' opinions directly from BRIC countries on the matter.
In light of the massive countries' and banks' ratings downgrades by the major rating agencies the analysts are trying to recognize the real meaning behind the downgrades, whether they signal the global economy's slowdown or endeavour to fix their image for relative sluggishness during the crisis of 2008. In this respect Dukascopy has asked expert's opinion on the role and
With the mounting level of economic problems the Eurozone is in need of external financial aid. Among the top potential providers of credit analysts suggest the reserves rich BRIC countries. Dukascopy has asked the expert's opinion on the matter.
The Federal Open Market Committee announced September 21 the execution of Quantitative Easing (QE) plan which is also named Operation Twist. The Fed's plan is to buy $400 billion of long-term debt, thus making it easier to receive a mortgage or to get a business loan at a favourable loan rate which would result in rallying economic growth and employment.
In light of the recent massive sovereign countries' and banks' rating downgrades, Dukascopy TV has interviewed and asked opinions on the role and importance of rating agencies of two experts - Prof. Dr Norman SchГјrhoff, Professor of Finance at University of Lausanne, Senior Chair at Swiss Finance Institute and Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Prof. Dr
Last week Swiss investment bank UBS reported unauthorized trading which caused a loss of $2.3 billion. Kweku Adoboli, a rogue trader from UBS London office who is in charge of the loss is accused of speculative trading in index futures. UBS's CEO Oswald Gruebel notified that the incident will have an effect on the bank's strategy and possible division of the
“It may well be in the interest of the BRIC countries to prop the Euro up”- Rajesh Chakrabarti, Assistant Professor of Finance at Indian School of Business“BRIC countries have to initially make sure that Europe can take action to rescue itselfbefore being saved by BRIC”- Frank M. Song, Professor of Business and Economics at the University of Hong Kong$With the
$“Maybe it is to China's best interest to let things get even worse in Europe before it helps it to get better”- Ricardo P. Câmara Leal, Professor at University of Rio de JaneiroWith the mounting level of economic problems the Eurozone is in need of external financial aid. Among the top potential providers of credit analysts suggest the reserves rich
In light of the recent massive sovereign countries’ and banks’ rating downgrades, Dukascopy TV has interviewed and asked opinions on the role and importance of rating agencies of two experts - Prof. Dr Norman Schürhoff, Professor of Finance at University of Lausanne, Senior Chair at Swiss Finance Institute and Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and
In light of the recent massive sovereign countries’ and banks’ rating downgrades, Dukascopy TV has interviewed and asked opinions on the role and importance of rating agencies of two experts - Prof. Dr Norman Schürhoff, Professor of Finance at University of Lausanne, Senior Chair at Swiss Finance Institute and Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and