Cube Infrastructure Managers, a Luxembourg-based infrastructure investor, has agreed to take over the Czech activities of Germany energy firm MVV Energie AG for an undisclosed amount. The transaction would be done through Cube IM’s “Cube Infrastructure …

Marc Peter Klein will join Deutsche Börse as Managing Director Group Compliance on 1 January 2023. He is joining from Deutsche Bank after seven years as Head Business Line AFC Corporate and Investment Bank Germany & EMEA and several years in senior …

The European Central Bank needs to review its special programmes that make available cheap money to banks in Europe in order to become more effective in fighting inflation, Banque de France governor François Villeroy de Galhau told central bankers at …

Central banks worldwide will need to face the fact that pressure on prices will remain high for the coming years and that inflation dynamics will continue to be clouded by uncertainty, Switzerland’s central bank chief has told his colleagues in Jackson …

“Walking the narrow path” is an expression among central bankers about striking a fragile balance between reining in inflation and not plunging the economy into the ravine. Friday showed how difficult that task has become. Investors who had expected a …

It was a huge shock. The 37.2 percent increase in German producer prices, or PPI, for July that the Statistisches Bundesamt announced last week. Not only was this the biggest price increase ever, it was also more than five percentage points higher than …

In the last month, we have seen a sharp recovery in the stock market that most analysts (including myself) found surprising. Let us briefly go over the reasons for this boom. We see a number of them. 1. The unexpected stock market boom Holidays mean low …

You may not have noticed it while on holiday this summer, but Italy is once again in crisis. Political risks make for an uncertain economic outlook. This week, we look at the top 5 bond funds with the highest exposure to the battered Italy debt markets. …

Global asset manager Invesco has launched an actively managed, 30 million dollar investment fund focused on metaverse companies. The Invesco Metaverse Fund will be domiciled in Luxembourg and will be distributed to investors across Europe. The metaverse …

The US equity market has rebounded some 15 percent from its low in June, helped by hopes of a Fed turnaround, better-than-expected corporate results and investors who were gloomy but invested. The June low remarkably coincided with the peak in earnings …

Cube Infrastructure takes over MVV’s Czech energy business

Klein joins Deutsche Börse as Chief Compliance Officer

‘Cheap money at ECB makes fighting inflation difficult’

Swiss central bank is proud of its narrow mandate

Jackson Hole shows the narrow path is getting narrower

Chart of the week: German inflation nearing 10%

Jan Vergote: central bankers and inflation... quo vadis?

Top 5: Bond funds exposed to Italy

Invesco launches actively managed metaverse fund

Han Dieperink: interest rates must rise further