11 Feb
Member News, Trade & TTIP Related

OCO Global | L’Art de la Négociation: Trump, Tariffs & the Transatlantic Tug-of-War

By Ian Hunter “Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” - Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal President Trump has never seen trade policy as just economics – it’s a high-stakes game, and winning is everything. Throughout his career, he has framed trade deficits as evidence of American weakness, blaming past administrations for allowing U.S. manufacturing to decline while foreign goods flood the market.  With Washington...

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11 Feb
Chapter News

NY Fed | Inflation Expectations Stable; Household Spending Growth Expectations Decline

NEW YORK—The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data today released the January 2025 Survey of Consumer Expectations, which shows that inflation expectations were unchanged at the short- and medium-term horizons, and increased at the longer-term horizon. Commodity price expectations rose across the board, with the expected price change for gas, food, medical care, education, and rent all increasing. Labor market expectations were mixed, with job loss and job finding expectations both rising and unemployment expectations falling...

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11 Feb
Chapter News

ECB | Why a more competitive economy matters for monetary policy

By Marinela-Daniela Filip, Daphne Momferatou and Susana Parraga-Rodriguez | At the heart of the euro area’s competitiveness challenges lies weak productivity growth. The ECB Blog looks at how this makes it more difficult to carry out monetary policy. While companies in the euro area are getting more productive, they are doing so at a much slower pace than their competitors. Weak productivity growth is putting monetary policy in a difficult situation. When the economy struggles to grow and loses competitiveness...

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10 Feb
Member News

Cilcare launches a new study to explore hearing in patients with early-stage neurodegenerative diseases and identify new auditory biomarkers

Cilcare takes a major step forward with the launch of SAPHIR, a groundbreaking study on the link between hearing disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. A pioneering observational clinical study conducted in partnership with the University Hospitals of Gui de Chauliac (Montpellier) and Carémeau (Nîmes). Recruitment of 309 participants, divided into three groups: Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Parkinson’s Disease, and an age-matched control group. A cutting-edge approach combining advanced auditory testing and biological biomarkers to uncover specific auditory signatures. Montpellier, February 10, 2025 – Cilcare,...

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10 Feb
Member News, Trade & TTIP Related

Jaguar Freight | The Weekly Roar – Extortion in the Red Sea, trade tensions, the end of the de minimis rule, Vietnam’s surge in imports, and addressing supply chain challenges with automation.

The Red Sea ceasefire may not be exactly what it appears. It seems the Houthis have turned to what feels like maritime extortion. They’re now offering a “safe passage fee” for ships using a negotiation system that includes a customer service email. And presumably, if the fee isn’t paid, further demands for payment are made. Even with the ceasefire in place, insurance premiums remain high, and carriers continue rerouting vessels to avoid the region as security concerns persist. The promise...

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07 Feb
Chapter News

ECB | Natural rate estimates for the euro area: insights, uncertainties and shortcomings

Prepared by Claus Brand, Noëmie Lisack and Falk Mazelis Estimates of the natural rate of interest, or r*, show trends that are of fundamental significance for monetary policy, but are subject to important caveats. r* is defined as the real rate of interest that is neither expansionary nor contractionary. Measures of r* are typically constructed as an equilibrium value towards which interest rates tend to gravitate in the medium to long term, as aggregate saving and investment imbalances abate and the...

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07 Feb
Chapter News

OECD | Development finance needs major overhaul to achieve global goals

The gap between development financing needs and available resources could swell to USD 6.4 trillion by 2030 without a major overhaul of the financing system, according to a new OECD report. The Global Outlook on Financing Sustainable Development 2025: Towards a more resilient and inclusive architecture shows that although total external finance to developing countries reached USD 5.24 trillion in 2022, it remained significantly below the USD 9.24 trillion estimated to be required annually to achieve the 2030 Agenda. Financing needs have risen...

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07 Feb
Member News, Trade & TTIP Related

Vulcan View: The latest EU developments 3 February – 7 February

EU to tighten controls on imports from sites such as Shein and Temu  The European Commission is taking a stand against low-value imports offered by non-EU online retailers and facilitated by marketplaces like Shein and Temu, which host non-EU traders. This is part of the Communication on E-Commerce, ‘A comprehensive EU Toolbox for Safe and Sustainable E-commerce’ proposed on Wednesday, 5 February. A total of around 4.6 billion low-value consignments (goods not exceeding the value of €150) entered the EU market last...

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06 Feb
Chapter News

The Fed | Federal Reserve Board releases the hypothetical scenarios for its annual stress test

The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday released the hypothetical scenarios for its annual stress test, which helps ensure that large banks can lend to households and businesses even in a severe recession. Additionally, the Board released two hypothetical elements designed to probe different risks through its "exploratory analysis" of the banking system. The exploratory analysis will not affect bank capital requirements. The Board's annual stress test evaluates the resilience of large banks by estimating losses, net revenue, and capital levels—which...

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06 Feb
Member News

Loyens & Loeff | Quoted: The new Dutch entity tax classification rules

As of 1 January 2025, all Dutch and foreign partnerships are, as a main rule, classified as transparent for Dutch tax purposes, except when a partnership should be considered a fund for joint account (FGR). In addition, also the tax classification rules applicable to FGRs were amended as of 1 January 2025 as well as those applicable to entities formed under foreign law. This first 2025 edition of Quoted is an update of our Quoted of June 2024, which edition...

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