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Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... ratings agency - back in the headlines again. In its weekly credit outlook, it concluded that its review of Ireland's sovereign credit rating would "most likely" result in a "multi-notch downgrade" of its Aa2 rating. What have I been saying about credit ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) tested 91 European banks on their ability to survive a recession and/or a sovereign debt crisis. Only seven banks failed -- five in Spain, one in Germany and one in Greece - and the amount of fresh funding ...

When Irish eyes are frowning

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... positioning their portfolios carefully to avoid the Irish fiscal hangover and to exploit opportunities. The European sovereign debt crisis, which has been bubbling under the surface for months now, has resurfaced and reared its ugly head again in recent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... 24,615 contracts traded. Wall Street and European stocks fell sharply overnight on growing unease over Europe's massive sovereign debt and China's efforts to tackle rising inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 178.47 points, or 1.59 per ...

Lower returns outlook will change allocation choices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... This is leading to the surprise outcome that it is the developed world markets and not the EMs that hold most of the sovereign risk, said Mauppin-Higashino. "These markets can trade at a 20 per cent premium to their developed world counterparts," he ...

Recycled fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... seeking for something to worry about, worry not over China or the US, be concerned about Europe and the re-ignition of sovereign debt crisis fears. But only if you think that the European Central Bank and the European Union would just sit idly by and ...

CalPERS deploys US$500m into ESG, OTPP buys Chunnel link

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... Employees Retirement Scheme - are believed to have beaten a number of high profile infrastructure investors, including sovereign wealth funds, in the tender for the HS1 rail network, which connects St Pancras station with the channel tunnel. HS1 is used ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... points, it's 9.3 per cent higher than its 2010 opening level, it's jump 19.2 per cent since the peak of the European sovereign debt crisis scare in the middle of the year and, it's up 15.9 per cent since the thought of QE2 first made its rounds on investors' ...

Slim pickings in intl equities: van Eyk

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... resurface." For example, he said that imbalances will resurface following the second round of quantitative easing, outstanding sovereign issues globally and many OECD governments still with huge amounts of debt. "In the next five years, we expect an ...

Healing US, crouching Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... and shouting. They ran back to the US dollar because they found another reason to worry about. The eurozone and its sovereign debt crisis: that's what it is. Yes, ladies and gents, investors sought safe haven in the US dollar (bring me the head of the ...