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Ibex Salad
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Commentary on the Spanish stock markets and economy, a trading diary and information on olive oil and the olive oil industry.
Recent Posts
Partido Monotonista
A recent interview published by Welling@Weeden (subsciber only but a brief synopsis can be found here) with fund manager Andrew Smithers - in which he convincingly argues that the best economic outcome would be very slow growth over an extended perio...
Me Hit Ball With Stick
Of tremendous interest to the North American press over recent days has been the odd automotive accident in which golfer Tiger Woods found himself involved. What we could surmise from the two or three paragraphs we read on the matter is that this occ...
Rent Or Buy
Spanish readers of this blog who remain convinced that, under all circumstances, renting a home is merely 'putting money into the landlord's pocket' (as are 99% of their compatriots) might want to play with this New York Times calculator. Plug in som...
September Mortgages
One of the other property-related charts (aside from sales) we like to post is that derived from the INE's residential mortgage issuance statistics, which were published this week. Here it is through the end of September.The number of new mortgages t...
Limited Service
For the next week and a half the writer will be busy (barring the inclemencies which are sure to arrive) with the olive harvest. In an emergency, he can be found about a kilometre east of point A on the map.In the meantime, readers might want to thin...
Storage
What we like most about FT Alphaville is their writers' ability to regularly haul out really interesting items that would escape the attention of any but specialists in a given field. Last Thursday's piece on petroleum inventory is a case in point.Be...
