Category Archives: Europe

Brexit: Things Are Always Darkest Before They Go Completely Black

Don’t kid yourself that the current relative calm on the Brexit front is a good thing.

Brexit: EU-UK Talks Collapse, Disorderly Exit Virtually Certain

Bad Brexit news just got worse.

Mr. Market’s Hissy Fit May Be Over….For Now

Puzzling out the markets have changed, and not changed, since the crisis.

Brexit Chaos

It’s getting harder to figure out what exactly is happening on the Brexit front, but even through the fog of negotiations, things don’t seem to be getting any better.

Italy’s New Fiscal Plans: The Options of the European Commission

What could the European Commission do if it decided to discipline Italy for defying budget rules?

Brexit Derivatives Risk: Did the City Overplay Its £38 Trillion Hand?

Novating UK derivatives contracts entered into by EU clearinghouse members is a ginormous mess, particularly in a Brexit crashout. But how serious a mess?

Brexit Crunch: Is the EU Trying to Save the UK from Itself? Is That Even Possible?

Brexit reaches the”overly dynamic” phase.

Don Quijones: Italy’s Debt Crisis Flares Up, Banks Get Hit, as Showdown with the EU Intensifies

Who will blink first as Italy’s anti-establishment coalition government takes on the EU establishment in a struggle that could have major ramifications for Europe’s monetary union and Italian banks.

Brexit Notes: Tory Conference and DUP Demands Yield More Insanity

Brexit has officially gone around the bend.

Something Russia and EU Appear to Agree on – the Euro

The very rational case for Russia and the EU to trade oil in euros.

Hard-Brexit Lobbyists Demand UK Roll-Back Environmental Standards to Strike Free Trade Deals with India, China and US

Another ugly but far-from-secret element of what was in store with a Glorious Brexit.

Crash Out Brexit Virtually Guaranteed as EU Leaders Talk Tough to Theresa May, Reject Chequers Plan, and Give Her October Deadline

Brexit negotiations are over. The only question is whether the EU and UK continue to expend energy talking past each other.

On Brexit, UK Negotiators Have Adopted a Hard Bargaining Strategy

A look at the UK’s negotiating stance, charitably assuming that it is by design.

Brexit: Circling the Drain?

Has anything changed on the Brexit front?