Amid the debt crisis in the Eurozone, Sweden enjoys its Krona's appreciation combined with the 4. Dec decision by S&P to upgrade the rating of Swedbank, the leading retail bank in Northern Europe, to A+ from A, signaling high level of bank's stability. Our expert from Uppsala University, Professor Ali Sina Г–nder, has shared his view on the strength of
Amid persistent concerns over European debt crunch and US economy's potential slowdown, economists feel discomfort about the abnormal rating agencies' activity that have downgraded a large number of countries and banks, spreading the overall anxiety. Dukascopy Bank decided to inspect the problem with an expert in this area, Claire Hill, Professor of Law, whose research interests include corporate governance, rating agencies
Dukascopy carries on interviewing the experts from Scandinavia. Today Anders Löflund, Professor of Finance at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, unpicks for us the economic situation in Finland, being a part of the Eurozone, and reflects on how the potential breakdown of the euro could shake the Scandinavian countries.
While the investors speculate on the Eurozone currency's dependence on the sovereign debt crisis, Dukascopy decided to have a look at the Scandinavian currencies who maintain their "safe-haven" status for quite a long time now and, according to IMF, are still in a very good shape. Today we have put the Norwegian Krona under scrutiny with the help of an
The contagion from Greek sovereign debt is spreading to other troubled Eurozone countries, such as Italy, Spain and Portugal. Dukascopy has conducted a string of interviews to disclose the situation from the inside and bring you the recent news and experts' opinions on the matter. Today Professor Ricardo Cabral has put Portugal under scrutiny and unpicked the recent economic developments for Dukascopy clients.
Dukascopy has interviewed Brian Lucey, Professor of Finance at the prestigious School of Business in Trinity College Dublin, to discover how Ireland is doing in light of the debt crisis in Europe. Professor Lucey gives his view on the troika ruling, Germany's behaviour in the Eurozone and provides advice on how to rectify the turmoil.
As the Eurozone countries are still struggling with the debt crisis, Dukascopy is persisting to interview the experts in finance to learn information from the inside. Today we talked to JosГ© GarcГa-Montalvo, Professor of Economics at the University Pompeu Fabra, Spain, who shared his opinion on the recent news from Spain. Spain still has the highest unemployment rate of 25% in the EU and
As the economic turmoil in Europe is enduring, Dukascopy is seeking the reasons for the current debt crunch. We have interviewed the experts who have investigated the issue for a while and are willing to share their point of view.
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.