The recent passage in the Congress of the new $1.9bn “Biden” fiscal package has caused a “frenzy” among investors everywhere, especially those operating on the US stock market. Estimates vary with each financial company trying to create the right momentum for its client-investors so that funds invested during the pandemic in shares of technology and
Last week we saw a sell-off in the technology shares of large companies, a fall in the price of gold and a rise (fall) in yields (prices) on government bonds. However, the passage of the $1.9bn “Biden” fiscal package has made investors worried about the expected artificial inflationary pressures that will force central banks to
US President Joe Biden’s fiscal intervention to be used to support the US economy, which is approaching three times the productive gap in the US economy, fiscal program of $1,9trn size, has caused strong turbulence in fixed income markets, triggering a percentage boost in government bond yields on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. by
The fact that the ECB, through its programmes of the type of quantum easing (QE) and Pandemic Emergency Purchases Program (PEPP) respectively, provides the market with money, making it the main buyer of European government bonds, forces investors to create an informal queue to buy the remaining and smaller volume of European bonds offerings left
Incentives for employees to achieve specific corporate objectives are either the provision to them of free shares or stock options in shares, which give them the right to buy shares of their own at a preferential price or of the parent (usually) company of the group. The tax treatment of these incentives in the EU
Initial Public Offering (IPO) is the procedure in which a company issues and releases its shares publicly for the first time. In addition, many companies to raise new capital choose to do so through the IPO process to either expand their business activities or their investments (possible and mergers & acquisitions) or to offer their
Markets always send the signal of risk or euphoria first, either by launching or shrinking bond spreads respectively and long before rating agencies start one by one and slowly downgrade the credit rating of the country which is under consideration. It is common for Big-Four Rating Companies – Fitch Ratings, Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, DBRS
It is the Social Security Funds that pay the pensions and pay the health benefits offered by third parties to their insured persons. This is achieved because of the social security contributions paid by insured persons, employers and in some cases by the State respectively throughout the working life of insured persons. Social Security Contributions
Earlier this week the revelations of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and in collaboration with Buzzfeed on the content of Fin Cen files and always on the laundering of astronomical amounts for more than twenty years by the largest banks in the world gave the “charismatic shot” to stock market indices that over the
The fact that the Chinese economy came out very quickly from the spread of the pandemic and in particular in the first three months of 2020, managing to revoke all the imposed measures of lockdown and social isolation, justifies as a point the ever-increasing expectations of investors to invest in China, despite the well-known pathologies
