Reading time: 4 minutes Summer is done, and stress has begun. Lectures, internship processes, IB days, exams and the like are all back to torment us. And as if that was not enough, the [ … ]
Category: Week at Close: Financial News of the Week
W@C – Is this the end? : 01/05 – 05/05
Reading time: 4 minutes No surprises. Last week, I laid the groundwork for this week, which would surely be marked by Central Bank action. Wednesday the Fed, Thursday the ECB. Despite some weekend turbulence [ … ]
W@C – Bank earnings amid the crisis that never was : 17/04 – 21/04
Reading time: 4 minutes It feels like an eternity ago, but only last month we had the unwinding of one of the biggest banking disruptions in recent times. Even though, as we know, Europe [ … ]
W@C – March recap courtesy of OPEC+ : 03/04 – 07/04
Reading time: 4 minutes Did someone ask for a summary of all the themes that dominated the last 4 weeks in financial markets and were the core topics of the Week at Close column [ … ]
W@C – And then came the calmness: 27/03 – 31/03
Reading time: 3 minutes Finally, some time to breathe. After three weeks of absolute madness in financial markets, quietness has been restored. No banking problems, no Central Bank decisions, no surprisingly worrisome economic data. [ … ]
W@C 3 – Monetary mind games: 20/03 – 24/03
Reading time: 4 minutes One year ago, the Federal Reserve decided on its first interest rate increase to counter the surge in inflation that was already being heavily felt back then. They committed to [ … ]
W@C – The banking tremor after SVBoom: 13/03 – 17/03
Reading time: 4 minutes What a week this was in terms of catastrophes. Bocconi’s mid-term exams came swinging. Inter, a team that a lot of you may support, knocked my beloved FC Porto out [ … ]
W@C: The rollercoaster of temporary (dis)inflation – 06/03 – 10/03
Reading time: 5 minutes In this first edition of our new finance column Week at Close, we talk (among other things) about the broken promise of temporary inflation, Jerome Powell speaking and markets reacting, [ … ]