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Where now brown cow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... Spain "is now at greater risk of sovereign restructuring than ever before." Greece "will have to restructure again," Portugal has a "very high risk" of restructuring next year and Ireland requires "additional official sector support." There's also our ...

When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... outlook was not conducive to making mo' money. No sir! Better stuff your savings under the bed. Greece will default - Portugal, Spain and Italy, maybe. The Eurozone economy will recede, and perhaps take the UK down with it. Worse, the Eurozone will implode ...

Greece still matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... ratings? However, the current stability in the financial markets and the optimism that it engenders could give Greece - and Portugal and Italy and Spain - time to get their houses in order. This is the same hope expressed by European Central Bank President ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... too late in coming. And contagion? It's still a risk but the threat may be lessening. If you saw Bloomberg's report on Portugal last night, you'll know why. Take it away Bloomberg. "Portugal should be able to return to bond markets next year and private ...

Thrilla in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... in one and positive in seventeen. Growth will be highest in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland and lowest in Greece and in Portugal." The "unlucky niners" are Belgium, Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Hungary. But for all ...

Waiting for the midnight hour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... refunding, that is. And based on the schedule compiled by Goldman Sachs, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Ireland and Portugal will have maturing bonds and t-bills amounting to about a,-1.05 trillion this year. Here's the month-by-month schedule ...

All Greeced out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012

Insult me, insult you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... be either to cover its entire deficit - even all of its national debt -- or let it go bankrupt. But it's not. There's Portugal, Spain and Italy in the queue. And if they go, the whole of Europa will burn and its embers could scald us all. The not so ...

Cheque's not yet in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... and the FTSE even closing on the plus side. And this despite more bad news last night - Moody's downgraded the PITS (Portugal, ITaly and Spain) along with Slovakia, Slovenia and Malta and cut the credit outlook for Britain, France and Austria to negative. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... results. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed down after Moody's downgrades of debt ratings of Italy, Spain and Portugal and, locally, softer commodity prices dragged the Australian share market almost one per cent lower. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...