Frankfurt Do companies’ profits justify the high valuations of the stocks? There will be a lot of new answers to this question in the week from Monday.The housing giant will lay down on Tuesday Vonovia and the semiconductor specialist Infineon Numbers ahead. Half-time workers have recently been so scarce that production has been slowed in … Read more
Deutsche Börse in Frankfurt The bull is a symbol for rising prices stands in front of the German stock exchange. – (Photo: dpa) – – – – Frankfurt The markets in the USA provide a good template for the German share index (Dax). Two out of three major US indices – the Dow Jones for … Read more
– EZB The ECB appears to be less climate-friendly than assumed. – (Photo: dpa) – – – – Frankfurt According to a study, the ECB prefers climate sinners among companies with its rules for loan collateral for financial institutions. Around 59 percent of the corporate bonds that the ECB accepts from banks as pledges came … Read more
– Financial conditions in the euro area were mainly determined by monetary policy measures during the pandemic. Together with a supportive fiscal policy, they have mitigated the economic effects of the Covid-19 crisis. The banks were also able to operate in a more favorable environment as the regulatory requirements were significantly relaxed. However, the end … Read more
– Financial district in Frankfurt In December, the financial institutions issued 7.0 percent more loans to companies than a year earlier. – (Photo: dpa) – – – – Frankfurt Despite the corona pandemic, large amounts of bank loans continued to flow to companies in the euro area at the end of the year. In December, … Read more
– ECB headquarters in front of Frankfurt’s bank skyline The ECB’s banking supervisors are urging Europe’s credit institutions to be more cautious when assessing their default risk. – (Photo: dpa) – – – – Frankfurt The banking supervisors of the European Central Bank (ECB) are increasingly dissatisfied with the handling of major European banks with … Read more
– The author Philipp Heimberger is an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies and at the Institute for Overall Analysis of the Economy, Linz. – – – – – In the last months of 2020, the EU issued its first Covid-related bonds. The money raised by the EU Commission on the financial … Read more
Will there be a trade deal? EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have set a deadline of Sunday. – (Photo: AP) – – – – Frankfurt Two far-reaching political decisions on Sunday should decide whether the stock markets start the new trading week with gains or losses. In … Read more
On the corporate side, shares moved from Walt disney in view. According to a press report, the entertainment giant is facing a significant austerity program on its Disney-ABC television division. In addition to a renovation, this also included job cuts, as the “Wall Street Journal” reported, citing people familiar with the situation. “Layoffs are likely … Read more
– Aareal Bank headquarters Aareal Bank’s headquarters may not be a “real palace”, as the activist investor Petrus Advisers writes. But the building is in a very central Wiesbaden location. – (Photo: dpa) – – – – Frankfurt It is an unusually rough wind that the Wiesbaden real estate financier Aareal Bank has been striking … Read more