Governatives

Fundraising is doing well for Hillary Clinton: the Democratic candidate for the White House has raised $ 143 million in August, more than 50% compared to July, and to what, four years ago, Barack Obama had collected. The average size of donations were $ 50 each (less than 56 supporters of his rival, Donald Trump).

Robby Mook said he was very pleased with the amount raised in August. The exponent of the campaign manager of the Donkey Party said about it: "thanks to the 2.3 million people who have donated, we are approaching the race for the White House to the last two months with sufficient resources to organize and mobilize millions of voters across the nation. "

he greek bond market remains the most lucrative on the European scene. Athens has in fact placed 1.14 billion of six-month bonds offering a yield of 2.97%, unchanged from the previous auction. The demand from institutional investors was stable with a coverage ratio of 1.30. Yields also remain stable with decades of greek bonds offering a yield of 8.10% to the 70.30 price. As for bonds maturing in 2019 and 4.75% coupon, the rate stood at 8.60 compared with a price in area 91. The stabilization of prices is determined by the GDP, no longer in free fall, but in the process of settling.

The possibility that the Spanish come back for the third time at the polls, now, is a more realistic scenario. Mariano Rajoy, on Wednesday, has received the rejection of the Parliament with 180 "no".
The Spain’s acting Prime Minister will try again in the second vote tomorrow, even if it becomes more and more concrete prospect of returning again to the polls later this year.
About the situation, the Minister of Finance Luis de Guindos warned that the Iberian economy will continue to proceed "at a slow pace" if it does not exit from the political stalemate that the country is experiencing, for several months.

Commercial flights between Cuba and the United States, interrupted in the sixties, will resume today. "The resumption of regular flights is a positive step and a contribution to the process of improving relations between the two countries," said the Cuban Vice Minister of Transport, Eduardo Rodriguez. The first direct flight, operated by the US airline JetBlue, will take off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, headed the Cuban city of Santa Clara.

The moment in which the securities issued or guaranteed by Greece will be included in the plan of the ECB purchases, ie Qe, are not yet certain. This is the content of the written response from the President of the institute, Mario Draghi, to request the Greek MEP Dimitrios Papadimoulis.

The free trade agreement between the United States and the European Union "has not failed", and precisely could get the classic twist. The next day the words of Vice cancellerier German Gabriel, who had announced the failure of TTIP, Brussels wanted to deny.

"The European Commission has made steady progress in the current negotiations on the TTIP," said European Commission spokesman, Margaritis Schinas, recalling that "the Commission has received unanimous negotiation mandate of the Member States to negotiate this agreement."

The EU Commission has imposed €13bn ( $14.5 billion) fine to Apple for back taxes owed to Ireland, enjoying therefore indirect state aid from Dublin. In spite of a tax imposed on the companies by 12.5%, according to Brussels reconstruction, Apple has managed to tick a levy of 1% on European profits in 2003 and then declined even to 0.005% at the end of the period under investigation, ie 2014. So far, the highest fine imposed by the EU was 1.4 billion to the French energy giant EDF.

The TTIP can be said definitively failed. In the opinion of Sigmar Gabriel, vice chancellor and Economy Minister German, "talks with the US are in fact failed because we Europeans, of course, must not succumb to American demands: nothing is moving forward ".
In an interview on German television ZDF, Gabriel added that "the negotiations with the US have failed de facto because we Europeans do not want to subject us to the US demands."