French Industry Continues To Surge, While Spain's Contracts Faster Than Anyone Else
spaineconomy.blogspot.com 11/3/2009 — Well, it is not as if I relish rubbing salt into old wounds, but this quote from the latest piece by Ben Hall in Paris and Ralph Atkins in today's Financial Times is just too good to resist. French manufacturing output rose at its fastest rate for nine years, according to a survey on Monday, ...

Are Spain’s Banks Really As Good As They Look?
fistfulofeuros.net 8/24/2009 — Well, Variant Perception’s Jonathan Tepper certainly doesn’t think so, and since his latest report on the Spanish banking sector cites me extensively and explicitly, I guess I don’t either. Spain had the mother of all housing bubbles. To put things in perspective, Spain now ...

And Variant Perception Respond to Iberian Equities Response.
spaineconomy.blogspot.com 9/3/2009 — Well, Jonathan Tepper has now written a reply to Iñaki Vigo, of Iberian Equities, Izabella Kaminska covers the reply here , on FT Alphaville, and Claus Vistesen has a summary of the whole affair here , on his Alpha Sources blog. Variant Perception's Reply To Iberia Equities by Jonathan Tepper ...

Two Graphs That Tell It All On Spain
globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com 3/27/2009 — by Edward Hugh : Barcelona First, the one year Euribor reference rate, which has been falling since the ECB started lowering interest rates in the autumn of last year. And secondly the chart showing the average rate of interest charged by Spanish banks on new mortgages, which as we can see, ...

Two Graphs That Tell It All On Spain
spaineconomy.blogspot.com 3/27/2009 — First, the one year Euribor reference rate, which has been falling since the ECB started lowering interest rates in the autumn of last year. And secondly the chart showing the average rate of interest charged by Spanish banks on new mortgages, which as we can see, has been rising steadily ...

Two Graphs That Tell It All On Spain
eurowatch.blogspot.com 3/27/2009 — First, the one year Euribor reference rate, which has been falling since the ECB started lowering interest rates in the autumn of last year. And secondly the chart showing the average rate of interest charged by Spanish banks on new mortgages, which as we can see, has been rising steadily ...

Is Spain's Unemployment Really Over Four Million?
globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com 5/12/2009 — by Edward Hugh: Barcelona The title to this post poses an interesting question I think, since the answer you give to it would seem to depend more on the meaning you attribute to the word "really" than on any consensually agreed objective fact. This is especially the case since Spain itself has ...

Is Spain’s Unemployment Really Over Four Million?
fistfulofeuros.net 5/12/2009 — The title to this post poses an interesting question I think, since the answer you give would seem to depend more on the meaning you attribute to the word “really” than on any consensually agreed objective fact, especially since Spain itself has at least two “official” ...

Has Spanish Unemployment Really Been Falling Recently?
eurowatch.blogspot.com 8/24/2009 — In this post I would just like to ask a very simple question. What is the real rate of growth of unemployment in Spain? Are things improving, getting worse, or simply staying the same? Now, before you jump to too many conclusions on this it is important to remember that in the world of economic ...

Spain's Manufacturing Contraction Accelerates in September
globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com 10/2/2009 — By Edward Hugh: Barcelona Well here's the first BIG news from yesterday's global manufacting PMI reports - Spain's manufacturing contraction accelerated in September. Of course, how could it be otherwise. But I do wish all those people who are still in denial on what is now an all too evident ...