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Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... manufacturing activity, reports out last night revealed that the Eurozone economy grew stronger than originally measured. Eurostat revised its initial estimate of euro area real GDP growth from 1.7 per cent in the year to the second quarter to a faster ...

Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... they'll downgrade Ireland and Spain. They have much higher deficit to GDP ratios than Portugal's 9.4 per cent. According to Eurostat, Ireland's government deficit as a percentage of GDP was 14.3 per cent in 2009 and Spain's 11.2 per cent. Didn't anyone ...

Liar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808) Greece has just climb 10 notches up crap creek when Eurostat - the European Union's official Statistician - called it a liar. Eurostat revealed last night how it discovered that Greece's ...

Goldman Sachs backs Greek swap deal

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... Sachs has defended its swap agreement with Greece, describing the transaction as "common practice" and consistent with Eurostat principles. The global investment bank said Greece entered a series of hedging agreements designed to transform foreign debt ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... the race.' But alas, recent developments in the Eurozone prove that 'slow and steady' does not always 'win the race.' Eurostat figures released last Friday the 13th showed that Eurozone GDP contracted by 1.5 per cent in the December quarter and by 1.2 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... cent which is the biggest increase in these investment expectations since 1990. The European Union's statistics office Eurostat has reported a 24 per cent increase in the trade deficit with China until July of this year and a 19 per cent one with Japan ...
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