Kapitaalvlucht 128 miljard uit Spanje
01 05 12 - 21:28
Uit de door El Pais gepubliceerde cijfers blijkt verder dan in het eerste kwartaal van dit jaar het aandeel van buitenlandse investeerders in Spaanse staatsobligaties met 22 procent is gedaald.
‘Cocktail that is hard to swallow’
“In the financial markets, there is no doubt that Spain is the price you have to look for every morning,” an employee of the European fund manager Pimco said last week in a visit to Spain. For Pimco, the loss of competitiveness of the Spanish economy, growing public debt, and the weakness of the banking system constitute a cocktail that is hard to swallow. In February, the exit of investment funds held by foreign investors was 13.460 billion euros, mainly in loans and deposits. At the same time Spanish investors sent 11.349 billion euros overseas. Outflows of funds invested by foreigners in bonds and shares was 3.883 billion euros, while Spanish investors bought 2.177 billion of these instruments overseas.
‘Spain has become the new Greece’
Ook lezenswaardig, dit recente artikel van Marshall Auerback:
Spain has become the new Greece. Actually, in many respects Spain is now worse than Greece. The Spanish unemployment rate is already so high and unlike Athens, Madrid has made no headway in reducing its public debt levels (whereas the Greeks are close to running a primary fiscal surplus at which point they could leave and turn the problem back on to Brussels). Moreover, Spain has a huge private debt burden that is twice that of Greece.
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