Topic: Sweden
Sweden's finance ministry on Friday slashed its growth forecast for next year and said the budget surplus would shrink to all but nothing."Growth in Sweden will be strongly dampened in the wake of the global debt crisis," the ministry warned in a ...
With Europe engulfed in a financial crisis that is also becoming a political crisis, Sweden stands out as an exception, and we affirm our expectation of the krona's outperformance in the period ahead. Sweden's economy contracted 5.3% last year but has rebounded ...
Nordic investment increased by nearly a quarter in the first half of 2010 compared to the final six months of 2009, led by a strong recovery in buy-outs, and also outstripped the 18 per cent increase for Europe as a whole. The ...
Conventional wisdom holds that banking crises have become ever more frequent during the last thirty years. I would also note that of the 90 banking crises that occurred from 1987 to 1998, exactly five involved an advanced industrialized economy (US in 1988, ...
The final fall of the House of Lehman occurred two years ago this week, marking the last, desperate phase of the financial crisis that almost undid the world economy. Although some developed markets have emerged unscathed from the crisis, the emerging markets-especially ...
Sweden and Finland, posting soaring economic growth on Wednesday, appear to be making a spectacular recovery from the deep recession their export-reliant economies experienced during the global financial crisis."It's pretty fair to say that the sun is shining over the Swedish economy ...
"Now we want chocolate, cigarettes and a trashy movie," behavioral economist David Laibson is quoted in a Harvard magazine report. Dutch researchers Theo Verhallen and Henry Robben found that when resources are scarce, those in charge of resource distribution tend to favor ...
Can algorithms suss out how people feel about big issues like the recession? Commenters expressed their economic concerns in terms of the people involved, primarily President Obama. For example, Obama was mentioned five times more often than the word "mortgages," and "people" ...
Specifically, recent moves in the U.S. dollar, crude oil, Australian dollar, S&P 500, emerging markets, and Sweden provide some additional evidence a double-dip recession is not as likely as some believe.. While the U.S. dollar's impact on the markets is often overstated, ...
Specifically, recent moves in the U.S. dollar, crude oil, Australian dollar, S&P 500, emerging markets, and Sweden provide some additional evidence a double-dip recession is not as likely as some believe.. While the U.S. dollar's impact on the markets is often overstated, ...
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