Posts tagged 'European Investment Bank'

An unexpected LTRO reaction?

Kate is FT AV’s Asia Correspondent. She joined FT Alphaville in mid-2011 after carrying out various roles in the FT’s London office since 2005: interactive editor, companies reporter, and founding editor of the FT’s Energy Source blog.

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| Feb 29 2012 08:57 | Comment |

That wasn’t quite our last pre-LTRO/Ltro/L-Troh  post.

On Tuesday Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman, ventured an interesting hypothesis on what the market’s response might be to the LTRO-II take-up, in relation to the consensus expectations of roughly €500bn. Read more

The ‘No More Lehmans’ rally (and a mad EIB idea)

| Sep 27 2011 10:38 | Comment |

Another day, and another plan to save the eurozone.

Via CNBC: Read more

Glencore’s EIB problem

Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)

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| Jun 01 2011 11:40 | Comment |

What a curious statement from the European Investment Bank (a placid institution usually) on Wednesday.

It starts off reading like a defence of a $50m loan to Mopani Copper Mines (a Glencore subsidiary based in Zambia) which dates back to 2005, despite strong criticism of the project’s environmental effects. Read more