Sentences with phrase «european financial crisis»

Despite gas prices falling for 13 consecutive weeks, consumer confidence continues to stagnate on concerns about high unemployment, the European financial crisis economic weakness at home, as well as a shaky stock market.

Some participants hoped the global financial crisis in 2008, and the European financial crisis now, might force resolution of systemic Wicked Problems with the global economic system.

U.S. mutual fund companies have begun to warn customers that if yields on short - term investments remain negative, as they have because of the ongoing European financial crisis, they won't be taking the hit for customers.

Located in the hotbed of European financial crisis, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival offers a lineup that's predictably timely and overtly political.

So a team of researchers based at City University in London and Stanford University in California analysed studies reporting on the impact of the European financial crisis on health outcomes, published from January 2008 to December 2015.

Italy's political class has struggled to deal with the underlying causes of the country's malaise, including a loss of international competitiveness and the stagnant productivity of its business sector that began well before the European financial crisis of recent years.

Could Sweden or Finland be the scene of the next European financial crisis?

Overall market confidence that the U.S. can somehow navigate through a European financial crisis without significant ill - effects continues to strike me as an almost delusional strain of optimism.

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«If they can not address [the financial crisis] in a credible way I believe within perhaps 2 to 3 weeks we will have a meltdown in sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking system.

The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, kick - started the launch of the legislation, known as Mifid II, after the original set of rules was found wanting in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

Six decades of history led to the European Union's current financial crisis.

The European debt crisis threatened to pull apart the euro zone only a few years after the world endured the greatest financial calamity since the Great Depression.

Even an intensifying of the ongoing euro - area financial crisis, which could occur, the bank says, because there are signs Europeans are becoming weary of austerity and reforms.

Recent terrorist attacks throughout the continent have also added to the feeling of insecurity of many Europeans and the persisting austerity measures following the 2008 financial crisis are increasingly pushing people to seek alternatives to the current major parties.

In an interview with IMF advisor Robert Shapiro, the bailout expert has pretty much said what, once again, is on everyone's mind: «If they can not address [the financial crisis] in a credible way I believe within perhaps 2 to 3 weeks we will have a meltdown in sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking system.

During the crisis, the global community came together to address weaknesses in the international monetary system: creating the Financial Stability Board and European Stability Mechanism, strengthening central bank swap lines, and carving out a more prominent role for the G - 20.

As you can see, the 2007 - 2008 global financial crisis had much less of an impact on state unemployment rates compared to other major countries and regions such as Canada, Australia, the European Union and United States.

BERLIN — Throughout the month, countries caught in the eye of the European financial storm, including Italy, Spain and France, have repeatedly defied expectations, selling big batches of bonds to the public at interest rates significantly lower than investors demanded at the height of the euro crisis late last year.

In European countries hit hardest by recent financial crises, such as Greece and Portugal, incomes have of course fallen sharply in recent years.

The European banks, lacking adequate capital, were crushed by the financial crisis.

The GS folks take a unique and informative approach: they compare a spate of economic indicators in the US to the «Big Five» advanced economy financial crises (taken from the work of Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff) as well as to the 2008 European crisis economies.

He's among the most respected voices anywhere on financial regulation and monetary policy, and the Canadian closest to the centre of efforts to solve the European debt crisis.

GHOS Chairman and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said the agreements reached on Sunday provide a «clear path» for completing banking regulation after the financial crisis.

She called on the European Central Bank to back - stop the financial system with «creative and inventive» measures to fight the crisis.

The Conditions at Sea: Worldwide Circumstances Distracting Investors Since the financial crisis of 2008 - 2009, investors have been obsessed with macroeconomic themes and distracted by various worldwide circumstances, including deflation in Japan; the state of global banks; financial instability in Greece, Cyprus and the European Union; and the challenges facing the BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia, India and China).

While the world has been laser - focused on the woes of the heavily - indebted PIIGS nations for the last couple of years, property markets in Northern and Western European countries have been bubbling up to dizzying new heights in a repeat performance of the very property bubbles that caused the global financial crisis in the first place.

Also in 2015, divergence in monetary policies unsettled developed currency markets: the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan continued quantitative easing programs while the Federal Reserve rhetorically led markets on a long, slow walk to the first increase in the fed funds rate since the global financial crisis.

For the first time since the 2007 — 2009 global financial crisis, the European economy appears strong enough to stand on its own, no longer in need of massive central bank support.

Faber argues there is — it might be harder to spot and it might not be as deep as it was in the aftermath of the financial crisis, but sharp - eyed investors will find intriguing opportunities in Asian markets, Eastern European markets, precious metals, and real estate.

Because of the heavy borrowing that led to Greece's financial crisis, running a budget surplus was one of the conditions of the European rescue program in 2010.

Given the European electoral calendar, investors are concerned that if an agreement on debt sustainability is not reached by the end of February, another EU financial crisis may unfold.

Among the factors which may have contributed to this rise were the European sovereign - debt crisis — particularly the 2012 — 2013 Cypriot financial crisis — statements by FinCEN improving the currency's legal standing and rising media and Internet interest.

The savings of the European Union's 500 million citizens could be used to fund long - term investments to boost the economy and help plug the gap left by banks since the financial crisis.

And then of course one issue that has been at the forefront of European risks since the beginning of the crisis, the global financial crisis, is Greece.

FRA: What about your thoughts, Peter you recently mentioned, Europe could be the epicentre of the next financial crisis coming out of the European bond market.

The combination of the 2007 - 09 financial crisis, the 2011 European debt crisis and a rising dollar have made for a terrible time for investors with a global portfolio in the past decade.

The European economy at large had been moving forward in the wake of the 2007 --- 2009 global financial crisis and subsequent sovereign debt crisis,...

Italy's second - largest bank by assets, Intesa Sanpaolo ISP.MI +0.86 % SpA, said that it has fully repaid a $ 36 billion ($ 49 billion) loan it took from the European Central Bank during the heat of the Continent's financial crisis.

After the 2008 financial crisis, high - level decisions transformed the European Central Bank into an instrument of unified European monetary policy.

Uncertainties over milk purchasing levels and payments caused by the financial crisis at dairy giant Parmalat is forcing southern European farmers into a race to secure guaranteed sales that may quickly put pressure on milk prices.

«London has enjoyed a strong return since the financial crisis and, with the exception of Paris, is the only European gateway city outperforming its peak pre-crisis RevPAR (revenue per available rooms) levels.

The once great Spanish and European superpower, Deportivo, have hit a financial crisis of late and are fighting a bitter relegation battle this season.

Certainly the current Málaga could do with an extended Champions League run as current owner Sheikh Abdullah Al - Thani has plunged the club into another financial crisis after an initial spending boom and UEFA have hit the club with a one year ban from European competitions, possibly extending to four if the club does not clear its debt.

Meanwhile, Wednesday's emergency summit in Brussels saw the creation of a package to deal with the eurozone's debt crisis, which includes a controversial extension of the European Financial Stability Fund to one trillion euros.

Britain's vote to exit the European Union prompted the biggest surge for the metal since the 2008 financial crisis, with the price up almost 20 % in the hours the followed.

Mr. Cohn - Bendit began the debate by characterizing the current climate as «a turning point in European history, because the European Union is confronted with one of its most serious crises, caused by the financial crisis».

In any case, to face the financial crisis and the underneath change in the balance of powers in the global economy, it has become increasingly evident that there is no other durable solution for the European economy (ies) than to move towards further fiscal and budgetary integration.

Already prior to the financial crisis, since the early / mid - 2000 s, the Commission had attempted to coordinate European aid policies more closely for the sake of reducing fragmentation and enhancing their effectiveness by committing the EU institutions and member states to one common policy.

The project therefore studies how the many ways people understand European history has changed after decisive moments — EU enlargement in 2004, terror attacks in London and Madrid, the financial crisis of 2008, the migration crisis of 2013/14, or Brexit.

However, the financial crisis and the EU are becoming increasingly entwined in the minds of European voters.