This year seems very promising for southern European economies: for the first time in years, Greece, Spain and Italy have positive growth prospects, especially in comparison to other European countries. In fact, while France is expecting 1.1% GDP growth for this year, Germany is expected to close this year with a negative growth of -0.2%,...
A recent meeting between Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and the CEO of Blackrock, Larry Fink, indicates a potential investment opportunity or the New York-based asset-management collosus. Blackrock already possesses shares of several Italian companies like UniCredit and Eni, and was allowed by the Italian government to own more than 3% of the shares of...
According to Italy’s National Institute of Statistics (Istat), the Italian economy grew by 0.7% in 2023, more than what was estimated in 2021 and 2022. As a result, total GDP volumes stand higher than the historical highest achieved in 2007, before the financial crisis. Although this should be considered “good news”, as stated by Samy...
