On this week’s Podcast, BMI’s Spain analyst Chris Graham answers all the key questions concerning the stability and outlook for the Spanish economy. These include: Why is Spain so important for the European outlook? What are the risks of a Spanish banking sector collapse? What has been done to support the banking sector? To what… [Read more]
Business Monitor’s Emerging Europe team has been cautious regional financial markets over the past several weeks, holding a neutral position across asset classes in the company’s in-house market portfolio since June 12. The long equity positions the team had held through the end of March to early June continue to look shaky amid technical signs… [Read more]
Wow, what a week. Not that markets ended up moving much, mind: as others have noticed, everything in the US closed pretty much where it opened the previous week (see Barry Ritholtz’s post on the subject). But even if those indicators indicate that nothing has changed, it is pretty clear that everything has changed. And… [Read more]
