Newsletter – August 2009

The curse of the “high end”   Nothing like a good old crisis to challenge our assumptions and change our perspectives. In the old days – say before the end of 2008 – it was said that no matter what the type of business, being at the high-end of...

Newsletter – May 2009

Mergers and acquisitions, a pendulum swing Mergers and acquisitions, is yet another area being transformed by the current economic downturn. Hit hard by the credit squeeze, M&A activity is starting to show signs of life again, although...

Newsletter – January 2009

Doing One's Homework These few words are very evocative of how off-putting it can sometimes appear to not only make decisions on a hunch but instead perform all the analysis that any given situation requires. It would seem that if circumstances...

Newsletter – September 2008

If your company is not directly affected, you have surely read about it in the business pages of the media: to the pressure that raising raw material prices has been putting on companies’ profit and loss account over the last few years, another...

Newsletter – May 2008

  As the world economy once again seems to be headed for a difficult patch, decision makers and investors face significant uncertainty. The choices they must make touch upon the economic, the strategic, and sometimes the ethical, as some recent...

EB Report: World Economy Situation

consensus in 2006 a) The short run: stable world economy, abundant liquidity The actual resilience of global aggregate demand has been highlighted recently by the calm with which world markets have navigated through the surge of oil prices, and...