Given that virtually all of the broad proposals mooted for
more eurozone integration require some re-opening of the EU treaties at some stage, to which the UK must give its approval, Cameron will most likely get opportunities to negotiate a new deal.
Presumably Cameron was relieved when he was able to escape to Norway, where he could actually get something done to help the economy, or even to Germany for
some more eurozone crisis chit - chats.
The more the eurozone countries ask for, the more Britain will ask for in return.
Gold miner ETFs were among the best - performing ETFs in the week ended Thursday, July 26, as the Dow notched a decline of 0.42 percent amid
more eurozone uncertainty.
Not exact matches
That leaves the U.S. Federal Reserve the best part of a year to widen the gap between U.S. and
Eurozone interest rates still further, a trend that will make the dollar
more attractive vis - a-vis the euro (all other things being equal).
Today, Sweden is among the most - connected countries in the
Eurozone, with
more than nine out of 10 households having internet access as of 2015, according to European Commission data.
But this logic misses the forest for the trees and might end up costing Germany and the
Eurozone a lot
more, in terms of hard cash and geopolitical power, according to Daniel Speckhard, former U.S. Ambassador to Greece.
The
Eurozone's economy slipped in the third quarter as the slowdown in China and other emerging markets
more than offset the benefit to consumers from low oil prices.
The process of this deal wasn't dissimilar to the bailout programmes that have already passed — the other
eurozone governments were a little less sympathetic, partly due to public pressure, and the Greek government was
more radical than ever.
But a strange showdown is shaping up between the
eurozone's powers, which can not and will not extend unconditional aid, and a country ravaged by austerity with little appetite for
more.
There's
more to the
eurozone than just Greece, Italy and France.
The
eurozone and Japan are best - placed for the continuing bull run, according to Citi, since both regions have both strong earnings potential and central banks ready and willing to flush the markets with
more quantitative easing.
Deutsche Bank shares trading in Frankfurt were down
more than 4 % on Monday, and credit - default swaps on the bank spiked to their highest level since 2012, when the entire efficacy of the
eurozone was in doubt.
We can see signs of stronger bank lending showing up in the
Eurozone's broad money supply, which increased
more than expected.
But unlike the 2011 rout, sparked by the
eurozone debt crisis, the sudden collapse of global equities markets that began last week is all about China — which makes it all the
more unnerving since few have a good grasp on how the world's most important emerging economy actually works.
Fears of seeming «political» during a presidential election year, sluggish growth in the
Eurozone and a slowdown of the Chinese economic juggernaut will also keep Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Markets Committee from pulling the trigger
more often; their vacillation will be one of the year's longest - running (and least loved) dramas.
The most widespread opinion is that the European Central Bank is going to announce a new round of bond - buying next week to try to stimulate the
Eurozone economy, which will further depress the value of the euro and make the franc yet
more attractive.
Monti is on a persuasion mission among the leaders of the
eurozone to push for
more drastic strategies that could be
more effective in fighting the crisis.
The idea is that deposit flight from Greek banks means that Greek citizens move their money abroad, where it is safe from Grexit, while Greek banks become
more and
more funded by the other
eurozone central banks, leaving those banks to be the losers if Greece leaves the euro.
European stock markets surged almost 2 % while Wall Street jumped
more than 1 % after a breakthrough came early on Monday when Donald Tusk, president of the European council, announced that the 19
eurozone leaders had unanimously reached agreement to keep Greece in the single currency, adding that Athens had signed up to «serious reforms».
To learn
more about the
eurozone's economic outlook, read the recent BlackRock Market Perspectives and a white paper I've written with my colleague, Chief Investment Strategist Russ Koesterich.
The step represented a significant escalation of the E.C.B.'s efforts to get banks to lend
more money, apply a jolt to the
eurozone economy and head off the threat of a destructive decline in prices known as deflation.
Programs of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve in the United States and by the Bank of England in Britain have helped the economies of those two countries recover from the global financial crisis
more successfully than the
eurozone has been able to.
Together, those drags on the economy of the 19 - country
eurozone are a reason the bloc's unemployment rate is
more than double that of the United States, and why
eurozone growth has lagged the American rebound in recent years.
In addition, the prospect of a Greek exit from the
eurozone has become much
more likely with the election of the radical Syrzia party, which threatens to unravel the monetary union.
How much
more fiscal punishment can the
eurozone endure before countries start throwing in the towel?
Despite the bank's stimulus measures to date, inflation in the 19 countries of the
eurozone has been stuck near or below zero for
more than a year.
Overall, prospects for a turnaround in the
eurozone and a
more rapid pace of recovery in the United States provide room for optimism in the coming months.
More importantly, beyond the implications of today's headlines, there are other reasons to consider raising exposures to the
eurozone, and to Germany, today.
I'm optimistic that the crisis will be serious enough to break up the
eurozone and create a new,
more socialist order in which debts are written down — and with them, the «bad savings» of the financial elites that are seeking to do to Europe what the Roman Empire did when it reduced Western Europe to feudalism.
Latvia's Road to Serfdom By Prof. Michael Hudson and and Prof. Jeff Sommers While most of the world's press focuses on Greece (and also Spain, Ireland and Portugal) as the most troubled euro - areas, the much
more severe,
more devastating and downright deadly crisis in the post-Soviet economies scheduled to join the
Eurozone somehow has escaped widespread notice.
Positive
eurozone expansion is making the region a
more attractive bet for investors and currency speculators.
Greece's future in the
eurozone looks
more perilous than ever, and the next 48 hours could be critical.
Two
more big deals are coming in major
Eurozone markets.
But Russia's economy has suffered
more recently, following declining oil prices and economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and
eurozone.
Following his comments, with the prospect of a rise in
eurozone interest rates apparently pushed back to 2018 at the earliest, the euro — which had already dipped in the wake of the lower - than - expected inflation figures — gave up
more ground.
SEPA has been
more than a decade in the making since the EC first called for cross-border payments in the
eurozone to be priced the same as domestic payments.
With
more people in work, and earning
more, spending power is on the rise, a boost for the
eurozone's growth prospects.
The president went on to announce that the broad - based economic expansion in the
eurozone accelerated
more than expected in the first half of 2017; however, recent exchange - rate volatility could lead to uncertainty in price stability over the medium - term.
European Central Bank head Mario Draghi says the
eurozone economy still needs abundant stimulus to raise inflation to
more normal levels even in the midst of a strengthening recovery.
The
Eurozone's Euro Stoxx 50 benchmark plunged
more than 4 % during the first quarter.
Unemployment across the 19 - country
eurozone has fallen to its lowest level in a little
more than nine years on the back of strong economic growth, official figures showed Thursday.
But the improvement in the
eurozone's fortunes does pose a dilemma for the ECB in our view, all the
more so given that renewed expectations for the Fed to raise rates soon have been helping to depress the euro.
«Austria's property market — its structure and recent performance — is
more closely aligned with its German - speaking neighbours than it is with its
more volatile southern
Eurozone partners.
Inflation across the 19 - country
eurozone remains stubbornly low even though the economic recovery across the single currency bloc appears to be gaining
more and
more momentum.
This is obviously a large simplification, but we are merely trying to make the point that changes in fears over the PIIGS and the subsequent «
Eurozone debt crisis premium» is
more like changing the intercept of the gold bull market trend than the gradient.
The euro crisis, for example, encouraged
more buyers resident in the
eurozone to look further afield to diversify their investments and move at least a portion of their wealth out of euros.
That makes quantitative easing in the
eurozone much
more complicated.
The euro has gained against the greenback over the last two weeks as the
Eurozone approaches a much - need agreement to release
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So I suggest that Greece tell
eurozone creditors to pursue this flight capital themselves, while Greece makes a fresh start to build a
more functional financial and fiscal system.