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"Zombie firms’ productivity declines as leverage rises"

The zombie share peaked in 2010 at 16% and declined in the subsequent recovery by a mere 2 percentage points. Since 2015 the share of zombie companies is already rising again

Probability of a zombie remaining a zombie in the following year rose to 85% in 2017
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🇯🇵 Bank of Japan’s loan programs risk revival of zombie firms

“Longer the support goes on the greater the risk that zombie firms will be”

“Once the economy starts recovering, what used to be good policy can become overkill”
#Japan #recession

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🇪🇺 #Eurozone
🇩🇪 #Germany
🇫🇷 #France
🇮🇹 #Italy
🇪🇸 #Spain
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Composite 50.4 (51.9)
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🇫🇷 #France 51.2
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🇩🇪 #Germany #Manufacturing #PMI

Sharp increases in output and new orders at end of third
quarter. Job shedding slows, but stocks show further steep declines.

September Manufacturing PMI 56.4 (August 52.2)

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🇫🇷 #France #Manufacturing #PMI

Business conditions improve amid faster rise in
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September 2020 flash PMI in one thread, in following order

#US 🇺🇸
#UK 🇬🇧
#EuroZone 🇪🇺
#Germany 🇩🇪
#France 🇫🇷
#Japan 🇯🇵
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🇺🇸 #US #PMI September 2020 (August)

Solid rise in private sector business activity in September

Composite Output 54.4 (54.6)
Services Business Activity 54.6 (55.0)
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🇩🇪 Longer suspension on #insolvency filings masks credit risk that explodes into wave of #bankruptcies when the moratorium ends

Also nurtures zombie companies that hold back investment and innovation and act as a drain on the #economy
#Germany #recession

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They restrict the entry of new, more productive companies, diminish job creation in the economy and lock capital into unproductive uses. In a word, they are a menace to the economy and society
#recession

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Reverse recovery

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🇦🇺 Australians racked up enormous debts as rising incomes and falling interest rates allowed them to take out larger mortgages to pursue escalating property prices
#Australia #debt #recession

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