The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) has predicted Germany’s GDP will fall by 0.6 percentage points over 2023, a sharp revision to previous predictions. One of the most-prominent economic organisations on the continent, the IWH has called its new forecast a “strong downward revision” of 0.9 percentage points. It cited a slower recovery in […]
Finnish firm Valmet has signed a €175m loan agreement with the EIB to support its efforts to finance technologies that replace fossil fuels with renewables. According to the company, the financing aims to enhance the resource and energy efficiency as well as the performance of Valmet’s technology, promote the use of recyclable raw materials and […]
The economies of Europe have proved a drag on worldwide economic growth, according to new work from the OECD. The organisation’s Interim Report September 2023: Confronting Inflation and Low Growth found global GDP advanced at an annualised pace of 3.2% in the first half of the year. While growth was strong in the US and […]
The Spanish city of Barcelona has been identified as the second-best hub on the continent for biotech investment, according to a report from CPHI. At a country level, meanwhile, the CPHI Annual Report expected Spain would emerge as the sixth country in the world and third in Europe with the greatest “pharma growth potential” by […]
Bad news for China doesn’t have to be bad news for Asia overall
Europe needs a better and more complete capital market set-up, according to the European Central Bank (ECB). In its analysis ‘Europe needs to think bigger to build its capital markets union’, the bank says the key is the creation of an “integrated European capital market”. Fabio Panetta, a member of the ECB’s executive board, argues […]
Latest funding an extension of the $1.1bn convertible issued in July 2022
Fund will have a minimum of 80% of its assets in sustainable investments
Strategies made available in Finland, Norway, and Sweden
Three major property developers in Germany have gone into insolvency in the space of two months. According to reports from Berlin, Centrum Group, Development Partner and Euroboden have all begun to declare bankruptcy in recent weeks due to financial problems caused by a constraint on the nation’s property markets. A report from Reuters suggested Euroboden […]
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