London Housing Meltdown Spreads as Pre-Brexit Angst Batters Market Sentiment by Don Quijones • Feb 19, 2019 • 43 Comments “If you are looking to buy a house in Q1 you will have the market to yourself.”
Next in the Bankruptcy & Restructuring Saga of European and Asian Airlines by MC01 • Feb 17, 2019 • 72 Comments The fate of the A380 is sealed.
Spanish Grocery Giant Unveils Big Losses, Teeters on Brink of Bankruptcy, after Allegations of Accounting Fraud by Don Quijones • Feb 8, 2019 • 18 Comments What could this mean for one of its big creditors, the ECB?
German Industrial Production Falls the Most Since 2009. New Orders Plummet by Wolf Richter • Feb 7, 2019 • 45 Comments Q4 is falling apart before everyone’s astonished eyes, and a “technical recession” beckons.
Italy Guns For Glass-Steagall-Type Law to Break Up Banks, Cut Bailout Costs for Taxpayers by Don Quijones • Feb 3, 2019 • 45 Comments The banking lobby and the ECB will have a cow.
Lloyds Bank Resurrects 0%-Down Adjustable-Rate Mortgages for First-Time Buyers to Prop Up UK’s Housing Market by Don Quijones • Jan 30, 2019 • 31 Comments Desperate measures for desperate times?
Low-Cost Airlines Are Crashing into Bankruptcy One After the Other as Financial Conditions Tighten in Europe by MC01 • Jan 26, 2019 • 43 Comments But traffic is up, and these are still the good times.
“Worst December in 10 Years”: Brick-and-Mortar Retail in the UK Faces Overindebted Consumers by Don Quijones • Jan 26, 2019 • 54 Comments But online sales are hot, now at 20% of total retail.
Big Exporters are Losing It: US Manufacturing Gains. Germany, Japan, China not so Lucky by Wolf Richter • Jan 24, 2019 • 66 Comments Central-Bank Stimulus Fail: The longer it drags on, the worse it gets?
Uber, Cabify “Evicted” from Barcelona as Turf War with Taxi Drivers Gets Ugly by Don Quijones • Jan 24, 2019 • 27 Comments Will Madrid be next?