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ECB: Three Options For The Quantitative Easing

We do not really expect the ECB to launch anything like a QE in 2015, however it is worth knowing that some “sources” are starting to leak some information about what the board of directors…


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Germany: New Negative Yields on Government Bonds

The 5Y German bond yield is now negative: 2015 has just started and yet we have already had a wonderful evidence of the fact that the ECB is not acting as a central bank In…


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Europe: It’s Official, The tLTRO Was A Huge Flop

The second tLTRO did not work: it seems like the banks are not crazy about the concept of “helping the economy”, what did we expect ? “Don’t help the economy, help yourself” seems to be…



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Another Sad Picture From The Euro Area

No one, not even Germany, is doing good at the moment in the Euro Area: economic and political issues are threatening the invisble €-recovery Whatever Brussells is doing, it’s not working at all: Note that…


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Société Générale: Watch Out For These Black Swans

The famous “black swan chart” published by Société Générale is out, let’s take a look at it The most impressive thing of the black swan chart published by SG for the 4th quarter is that…


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Euro Area: We’ll Receive Bad News on GDP

When you’ll see that “minus” sign in GDP official estimates by Eurostat, do not be surprised: the Eurocoin index had warned us before Summer began Mr. Eurocoin always knows better: Expect bad data from EU…


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Europe: Is Austerity A Serious Thing ?

It is now time for Berlin to realize that, at the moment, only Germany can afford to have austerity in its fiscal policy: all the other countries are just unable (or simply not willing) to…