The 26th of October 2015, OJSC Transaero Airlines, a Russian airline company, ceased its operations after 24 years. As of 03 September 2015, the Board of Directors of Aeroflot-Russian Airlines PJSC, the Russia’s flagship carrier, developed and approved a proposal for restructuring Transaero and to transfer the operational management to Aeroflot, ensuring corporate control over…
Looking back to the M&A activity in Germany, the total deal value surged from quarter to quarter in 2015 reaching €51.9bn, up by 5.8% YTD 2015 from the value YTD 2014 (€49.1bn). After the negative performance during H1 2015, a decrease of 24% with respect to 2014 (€32.6bn), the lowest value of M&A activity on…
Oil stock piles have increased to a record of almost 3 billion barrels because of strong production in OPEC and elsewhere, potentially deepening the rout in prices, according to the International Energy Agency. This “massive cushion has inflated” on record supplies from Iraq, Russia and Saudi Arabia, even as world fuel demand grows at the fastest…
“Lending Club” is the world’s largest credit marketplace, a peer-to-peer lending company where borrowers access lower interest rate loans through a fast and easy online – or mobile – interface while investors provide the capital to enable many of the loans in exchange for earning interest. As of September 2014, the platform has originated over…
Registering a 0.5% economic growth in the first quarter, the Eurozone started the 2015 with a modest expansion, but, due to the Grexit turbulence, during the second quarter the economy decelerated to a 0.4% growth figure. A positive influence was mainly due to the favorable developments in the external sector, but a weak private consumption…
From the 15th of June 2015 the Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 Index (SHSZ300:IND) has been starting to collapse, it lost almost 40% of the highest value, burning something like 3.500 bn dollars, more than the whole IBEX 35 Index (IBEX:IND). I’d like to point out that the Chinese market is the second largest market in…
The evolution of the stock market through the years is very visible; asset classes have become more homogeneous and even the individual investor can notice it. At the start of the 80s abnormal returns made by hedge funds were notable, financial markets were less crowded and people with good knowledge of diversification and the ability…
Over the past 6 years, the ECB has taken extraordinary measures to preserve the stability of the financial system, fight deflation and revive growth in the Eurozone. It has launched several rounds of LTROs, implemented a Government Bond-Buying Programme in 2010 and finally extended the programme in January 2015, initiating the so called Quantitative Easing.…
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