Sovereigns and corporates are taking advantage of the still accommodative global monetary conditions to secure funding. This Great Graphic, tweeted by Emerging Equity, from IIF data shows emerging market economies bond...
This Great Graphic is part of an interactive chart posted on Bruegel by Michele Peruzzi, Marco Antonielli, Silvia Carrieri and Carlos De Sousa. It depicts the output per employed person, which is a similar, but...
Cassandras warn that the foreign appetite for US debt is satiated and wonder who is going to buy US Treasuries when the Federal Reserve stops. Not only are US officials not concerned about this, but the Department of...
China is slated to release its latest estimates for banking lending and aggregate financing in the coming days. Over the past 12-months bank lending accounted for about 53% of the total financing, the remainder comes from...
Germany appears to have capitulated. The Bundesbank has dropped its opposition to extraordinary measures, like ending the sterilization of the SMP bond purchases, and has even dropped its visceral opposition to QE, if it...
This Great Graphic was generated on Bloomberg. It depicts Belgium’s US Treasury holdings, according to US data. It shows that Belgium’s holdings have soared in recent months. As recently as August, it...
This Great Graphic was tweeted by Random Jog. It shows family benefits as a percent of GDP for EU countries. There are two parts to the benefits. There is the part that all families receive. It is the basket of...
This Great Graphic was tweeted by Sony Kapoor. It shows GDP per capita for four large European countries and Japan. Per capita takes on increased importance given demographic considerations, like the actual decline...
This Great Graphic was tweeted by Sony Kapoor. Although the data is drawn from 2009, which makes it appear a bit dated, the important take away is a very small proportion of the UK’s debt really can...
The lowest euro area CPI print in four years has not spurred investors to reconsider the outlook for this week’s ECB meeting. Most recognize the ECB is likely to shrug off today’s preliminary report. It is...