Archive for the ‘Economic Outlook’ Category
PMI Drop Indicating Further Slowdown
Saturday, December 3, 2011 9:38 No CommentsIn November, China’s manufacturing sector shrank for the first time in nearly three years. According to figures by China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, it is revealed that the purchasing manager index, which is a main gauge of manufacturing activity, tumbling from 50.4 to 49 in October..
According to the analysts, it is indicated that it [...]
Belgium Credit Rating Also got Downgraded
Saturday, November 26, 2011 5:00 No CommentsBelgium has downgraded its credit rating by rating agency Standard & Poor’s had. The country could downgrade it more expensive to borrow for Belgium in the future. Belgium-rating was cut one notch to AA from AA + by S & P expressed concern about the funding and market pressures.
The move comes as the [...]
Italy Forced to Pay Record Rates
Saturday, November 26, 2011 4:58 No CommentsThe interest rate for new debt due in six months should be paid back 6.504%, compared with 3.535% in the last comparable sale on 26 October. The price for two-year bond was 7.814%, up from 4.628% last time.
The Bank of Italy said that the demand was high for the bonds, the demand for debt [...]
UK Retail Failures Forecast to Spike at Christmas
Monday, November 14, 2011 12:01 No CommentsInsolvencies and corporate failures among the UK retailers is expected to increase to the level at the end of 2008, when financial crisis start to break down the economy of the nation, by the time of Christmas this year.
According to the restructuring advisers and accountants, spike in UK retail failure will be expected due to [...]
Energy Links with Russian Strengthen
Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:11 No CommentsChina and Russia have been looking to actively push forward cooperation on oil and gas. However, the process has been long subject to delay due to disagreements in pricing.
Recondly, the two countries made giant strides in energy cooperation via first agreeing a price for Russian crude oil exported through a cross border pipeline and then [...]
Europe Should Share the Burden of Debt
Thursday, October 13, 2011 8:36 No CommentsToday’s world is tgreatened by the repeat of the 2008 economic crisis. The financial meltdown, which is expected to be of more cataclysmic scale, will take place in the European area instead of in the US. And this time, the financial mechanism involved will not be the highly complex structured financial products, but the government [...]
China Buys Japan Debt as Crises Grow in the West
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:17 No CommentsAccording to the analysts, it is said that overseas central banks are now diversifying away from the US dollars. For example, in a most recent attempt to get refuge from the financial crisis in the US and Europe, China bought more Japanese debt than it sold for the first time ever since October 2010.
According to [...]



