Sentences with phrase «european debt problem»

This morning we are seeing an early rally in mortgage backed securities due to concerns over an apparently contracting Chinese economy and a still unsettled European debt problem.

There will likely be some big bumps on the road, given the European debt problem is far from over.

Not exact matches

What we don't know the state of credit default swaps held by banks against sovereign debt and against European banks, nor do we know the state of CDS held by British banks, nor are we certain of how certain the exposure of British banks is to the Ireland sovereign debt problems.»

The new finance chief of Spain also told CNBC that the southern European economy has been growing at a solid pace of about 3 percent in the last four years, but this doesn't mean that the problems raised during the euro zone sovereign debt crisis are over.

Unresolved, these problems will have clear implications for the Canadian economy, a fact Prime Minister Stephen Harper acknowledged when he described the European debt crisis as «the most immediate and imminent threat to the global recovery.»

In effect, European leaders have announced «We have agreed to solve our debt problem, leveraging money we do not have, to create a fund, which will then borrow several times that amount, in order to buy enormous amounts of new debt that we will need to issue.»

Last month I spoke with a very prominent European economist and he assured me that although he now agrees (he used strongly to deny it) that China has debt «problem», he believes it can easily be resolved by «socializing» the debt, by which he means transferring it onto the government balance sheet.

So, unless they tackle the debt problem, the membership in the Eurozone, or the European Union, is really secondary to all of this.

An agreement between Greece and the European Union on Athens» debt problem is possible, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said after talks here Tuesday with Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras.

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Rather, my impression is that the problems at JPM may be the result of using highly leveraged, illiquid derivative transactions as a «cross-hedge,» intended to reduce the risk of default in a whole portfolio of complex positions including (but not limited to) European mortgage debt, but with the long and short portions of the position behaving unexpectedly in relation to each other.

He correctly identified the recent problem in the European economy as a «false lack» of money arising from the rigidities of a banking system that generates money out of thin air — always and only as debt.

Economists and European leaders are worried that debt problems in Spain could have major implications for the entire global financial system.

If you think European debt - to - GDP problems are bad, wait a few quarters.

For Europe, of course, the problem is not only recession risk but the high level of debt to GDP, and rising funding costs and default risk reflected in European government bonds (outside of Germany, which is seen as the safe haven).

While Greece's financial problems are real, and the worry that its debt problems could damage the entire European economy is significant, there are still investment opportunities beyond Canada's borders.

Adding to the government's problems, recently published research revealed that 25 percent of European Union citizens who study in England return to their home country without paying back any of their student debt.

In any case, the overall market continues to be range bound, with the S&P 500 between 1,100 and 1,350, weighted down by the European sovereign debt problem.

It boggles my mind to see the (US) media babble excitedly about the European debt crisis, while doing their level best to ignore the current or looming fiscal / debt disaster at the US federal & state level, another looming trillion dollar student debt problem (sure to be a key plank of Obama's new election... sorry, stimulus plan!)