Recently added articles from Market Europe:
Sharp decline in Dutch consumer confidence.
Nov 01, 2007 ... The September 2007 precipitous decline in Netherlands consumer confidence is a record, according to a short September 25, 2007 review of the situation posted on the Dutch News website (Amsterdam.) The posting says further, "It is the first time the consumer confidence index has been ...
Chocolate.
Nov 01, 2007 ... Chocolate prices are increasing in Europe just as the holiday season approaches. On August 14, 2007, Der Spiegel (Hamburg) said, "chocolate ... is set to get more expensive as raw materials go up in price. The crunch will be felt before Christmas." The problem is the result of a ...
The French are cautiously optimistic.(National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Before it became obvious during the summer of 2007 that the liquidity crisis was going global, and that the crisis would have a negative effect on the global economy, the world economy was doing well, "growing briskly," in fact. So observes France's National Institute for Statistics and ...
Counterfeit products law changes in Poland.
Nov 01, 2007 ... In May 2005, the Polish Supreme Court handed down a decision that gave Polish prosecutors permission to prosecute only companies that manufactured counterfeit goods. Sellers were in effect, protected. "For the past two years, stallholders who sold fake goods in open-air markets in Poland ...
Italian worker wage gap.
Nov 01, 2007 ... There is apparently more that institutional reform can accomplish in the Italian labor market than introducing flexibility, which has been shown to reduce unemployment. A September 2007 working paper, prepared by the Bank of Italy, Italy's central bank, closely examines wage discrepancies ...
United Kingdom and the credit crunch.
Nov 01, 2007 ... Evidence that the liquidity crisis begun in mortgage markets in the United States (US) has spread globally comes from the United Kingdom (UK) where a high profile bank failure ignited considerable borrower worry in September 2007. According to a September 20, 2007 analysis of the crisis in ...
Survey: Norwegian household spending.
Nov 01, 2007 ... On September 10, 2007, Statistics Norway, the government national statistics office, published a summary of its Survey of Consumer Expenditure 2004-2006. The survey offers a fairly complete picture of the spending habits of Norwegian consumers. The average Norwegian household ...
Belgian crisis deepens.
Nov 01, 2007 ... No one seems to be laughing anymore about the jocular September 20, 2007 posting on eBay offering Belgium for sale. The country was put up on eBay for auction by a Belgian who was protesting the fact that since the June 2007 elections, Belgium's 11 political parties have yet to form a ...
