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Australian expats pension protected

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the USA.

Quantitative easing eases bank lending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015

Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... Australia's budget deficit to GDP to be 2.4% by year-end. This compares with 2.6% for the US, 6.8% for Japan, 4.4% for the UK and Spain and 2.7% for China. Sure, austerity and thrift is good... but not if every sector in the economy is doing it for one ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... month, last week and yesterday's talks of "Grexit", "Grexodus" and "Graccident" vapourised. And then, there was contagion. Spain's equity market rallied by 3.9%, Italy's by 3.5%, Portugal's by 2.2%, Ireland's by 1.0% and their bond yields and their respective ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
When the global financial crisis broke, people dubbed them the PIIGS. Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain were the ugly ducklings of Europe. They had inefficient economies, had been relying on EU funding and were heavily indebted. Today, most ...

Saxo launches trading platform for SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... the most important factor when choosing a trading provider. At the same time, clients in Australia, along with Poland and Spain, are among the most risk conscious, and do not place a high importance on low margin requirements. The launch of the trading ...

Strong USD reflects (deflects) lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... would run out of money in April, March, May and now June... and then extended - the weekend's local elections result in Spain has become a worry. The Spanish local elections saw two anti-austerity parties - Podemos and Ciudadanos - holding the balance ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... empty economic calendar," said Christopher Dembik, economist at Saxo Banque. But though Renta 4 analyst Angel Perez said in Spain investors had reacted cooly to anti-austerity parties topping polls in Barcelona and possibly taking power in Madrid, the ...

Aussie banks overpriced, undercapitalised: Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... capital levels than global banks," with UK's Lloyds Bank core tier 1 ratio (equity over risk weighted assets) at 13.4% and Spain's BBVA at 12.7%, while National Australia Bank's was at 8.8% prior to the capital raise last week. NAB's raising "reflects ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... said Dijsselbloem, who is the Dutch finance minister. Madrid stocks ended the day with modest gains of 0.15 per cent, after Spain enjoyed negative interest rates on its medium-term debt for the first time since a crippling economic crisis. British voters ...