It’s all about the tie

  A couple of years ago, investors would have paid a fortune to possess a crystal ball and use it to forecast ECB’s decisions. Today, all they need is Mario Draghi’s tie. In fact, some people seem to play a weird game – by the name of “tie guesses” – that consists in guessing the colour of […]

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Brexit: to be or not to be together?

Few weeks ago, after a protracted period of renegotiation of UK’ s status as European member, the Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that the country is set to have a referendum on June 23rd. He said “We are approaching one of the biggest decisions this country will face in our lifetimes: whether to remain […]

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TurmOil

GLOBAL OVERVIEW The beginning of the new year has came with alarms in many areas, from the pure financial sector to the commodity sector, to the geopolitical tangle in Middle East. Among those, there is also a terrible performance of the oil price. Since mid-2014, price per barrel of oil began to decline from an […]

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The Italian Bail-In: the making of a banking crisis

Warren Buffet once said “You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out”. The dry humour quip applies very well to the personal finances of Italians that have just realized they have been dipping naked. After all, the “financial literacy rate” in our country is one of the lowest in Europe: as a […]

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