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Between 2019 and 2024, the EU’s GDP grew by 5.6% overall in real terms. 📈
Highest GDP growth in:
🇮🇪Eastern and Midland (+38.0%)
🇮🇪Northern and Western (+36.4%)
Decreases in:
🇧🇬Yugoiztochen (-20.5%)
🇬🇷Dytiki Makedonia (-18.0%)
Read more 👉link.europa.eu/dWPMfN
#EurostatRYB
ALT Map showing Change in GDP, 2019-2024 (% in real terms, by NUTS 2 regions), among EU countries, EFTA and candidate countries with available data.
“What has changed is the composition of cross-border acquisitions: targets elsewhere in the EU have gained share at the expense of targets outside the bloc. The single market may therefore offer firms a way to secure greater control...”
Tariffs, regulatory requirements and geopolitical uncertainty increasingly shape companies’ supply chain decisions.
And while supply chain risk has moved up the policy agenda, the corporate response has not centred on bringing production home. We have found that reshoring accounts for less than 1% of recorded euro-area restructuring events since 2019, compared with around 4% for offshoring.
think.ing.com/articles/europ…
French government bond exposure in Spanish banks’ portfolios — lower than I’d assumed.
Just about holding to initial pricing references across loans and bonds in exchange of a new covenant package 🥊 creditsights.com/articles/40…
How much did you say? #highyield #leverageloan All eyes on #ContiTech’s €2.3bn-equiv TLBs/SSNs scheduled to be priced this week creditsights.com/articles/40…
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How much did you say? #highyield #leverageloan All eyes on #ContiTech’s €2.3bn-equiv TLBs/SSNs scheduled to be priced this week creditsights.com/articles/40…
How much did you say? #highyield #leverageloan All eyes on #ContiTech’s €2.3bn-equiv TLBs/SSNs scheduled to be priced this week creditsights.com/articles/40…
Financial journalism is far more boring, thankfully! 😆 — ‘Trump lectured and unleashed at me his White House rapid response called me a “Mongoloid Moron” …and the Vice President on his official government account labeled me an ‘imbecile.’’
Trump lost control and ordered me to be ‘quiet’ in the Oval Office. Then it got personal ift.tt/61csZHK
“It will be the first time the regulator has published its strategy or set measures against which it can be held to account by parliament” 😳
UK’s top banking regulator to set targets with five-year strategy ft.trib.al/ZA1tWTj
Good luck with those ratios! — quarterly figures from Q2’25 to Q2’26 from @creditsights creditsights.com/articles/40…
Exclusive: Private equity firms including Apollo and Capvest are expected to table indicative bids this week for Flora Food Group, the €7bn spreads producer behind brands including I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, which was sold by Unilever in 2017. news.sky.com/story/apollo-am…
It turns out US voters aren’t as fond of Vladimir Putin as their @POTUS
From @FitchRatings’ European Corporates Distressed and Default Monitor: October 2026 fitchratings.com/research/co… #highyield #leveragedloan
Not all PE firms, etc, but as clickbaits go, this one is good! — “It’s little things like that I have seen accumulate over time . . . it makes me grouchy and undermines my confidence about whether the [general partners] really have our interests at heart or not” 🥹
New York pensions chief says private equity firm sought to expense jet use ft.trib.al/IaRPHcR
I find that many of these forecasts take for granted that end users, clients, customers, readers will accept AI’s output regardless of its quality and the actual level of satisfaction, just because 🤷🏼♂️ bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-…
Invest in backwater Europe, hedge 😎 — “But faltering AI investment and profitability could challenge optimistic expectations and trigger a correction in asset prices linked to the AI industry.”
Global financial markets face growing risks from AI, bond yields, and cyberattacks. As vulnerabilities increase, policymakers should contain leverage, strengthen debt sustainability, and harden cyber defenses.
Read our new blog: imf.org/en/blogs/articles/20…
“Around a third of cars sold across 17 key European markets in September were BEVs, data from E-Mobility Europe, New Automotive and Fier Automotive showed on Monday, amid a deal made by France and Germany to soften proposed EU car emissions rules” 🙄
Europe EV sales rose 70% in September, around 30% of market share reut.rs/3UynQZ2 reut.rs/3UynQZ2
This news ticks the boxes of so many financial, geographical, and cultural stereotypes that shouldn’t be covered by European reporters.
Former chair of Monte dei Paschi accused of role in executive’s death ft.trib.al/Rx1NSlu
