Economy

Some reports suggest that the stress that European banks may be tested for include a 17% loss on Greek bonds and a 3% loss on Spanish bonds  German bunds and possibly French bonds will not be stressed--that is to say the stress test…

The market awaits for the European Bank Supervisors to provide more details about the stress tests.  If the market has a better sense of the robustness of the stress tests it might lift some uncertainty among investors. There are…

Lately there has been much ink spilled (or at least the electronic equivalent) about the meaning in the downward shift of the yield curve, the significance of a two-year Treasury that sports a 5/8% yield, and a 10-year that trades in a new…

Kenneth Rogoff, a professor at Harvard University and former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, talks with Bloomberg's Susan Li i Hong Kong about the global economy and China's real estate market and economy. Rogoff also…

Peter Cecchini, chief strategist at BGC Financial, talks to Pimm Fox about the U.S. economy and consumer credit on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock." He says that the 122% percent household debt to GDP ratio is well above the…

Just three days after returning to Beijing from New York, I had to leave again, this time to a series of conferences in Torino, Italy, so it is hard to do much writing for my blog, especially since I won’t spend my free time in the hotel…

There's a reason economics is called the dismal science, and weeks like this just give it further meaning. In economics, there is what you see and what you don't. This week we are going to examine the headline data we all see and then take…

By Annaly Capital Management. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of Annaly Salvos, and we thought we would take advantage of this milestone to revisit the graph at the heart of our very first post. It is a snapshot of the…

The ISM manufacturing index fell much more than expected, but close to what our models were foreshadowing — down 3.5 points, to 56.2 in June, the low-water mark of the year. The number of industries reporting growth fell to 13 from 16 in…

It seems so if you read the latest from the Financial Times (hat tip Marshall Auerback): Iceland's banking sector is facing a fresh wave of losses after a court ruling raised doubts over the legality of billions of dollars of loans.…