Multifamily Rentals Were Best Asset Class in 2018 in Spain, But Now Rents Are Heading South by Don Quijones • Dec 20, 2018 • 14 Comments Soaring rents outran tenant wages, which can’t last.
Retail Melts Down Before Christmas in the UK, Spreads to Continent by Don Quijones • Dec 18, 2018 • 42 Comments After “the worst-on-record unbelievably bad” November, even e-commerce gets hit, not just brick & mortar, on fears Christmas sales could be terrible.
ECB Just Launched “Better Than Blockchain” Instant Payments System by Don Quijones • Dec 3, 2018 • 60 Comments But will the big banks play along?
Wall Street Mega-Landlord Blackstone Turns Screw on Spanish Government & Property Market by Don Quijones • Nov 27, 2018 • 45 Comments A lot of money is at stake.
QE Created Dangerous Financial Dependence, Italy Hooked, Withdrawal Next, ECB Warns by Don Quijones • Nov 22, 2018 • 72 Comments “Who will purchase €275 billion of government debt Italy is to issue in 2019?”
Resurrected Abengoa & Construction Giant OHL Flirt with Collapse by Don Quijones • Nov 17, 2018 • 24 Comments After years of dodgy accounting and mismanagement.
France Chases London’s Gold Market Amid Soft-Brexit Hopes by Don Quijones • Nov 15, 2018 • 19 Comments In the feverish reshuffling of financial services for a post-Brexit world, London still comes out ahead, but less so.
Is the UK’s “Next Carillion” About to Fall? by Don Quijones • Nov 13, 2018 • 26 Comments The outsourcing & construction giant with 70,000 employees is “circling the drain.”
“Outlook Deteriorated Even More for the Eurozone than for Germany” (Despite NIRP?) by Wolf Richter • Nov 13, 2018 • 41 Comments Export-Dependent Germany Hit by More than US-China Trade War.
As Regulatory Fog Thickens, Pre-Brexit Angst Takes Toll by Don Quijones • Nov 8, 2018 • 21 Comments City of London Just Lost a $240-Billion-a-day Financial Market.