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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 ...

PIMCO sees opportunity in EU bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... opportunity," he said. Worah argued that the ECB quantitative easing program will benefit "European peripheral bonds," mainly Spain and Italy. "A program of this magnitude likely would be centered on government bonds; however, non-financial corporate ...

The bad and the bad and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... closest follower - rose by only 40bps and to just 2.0% at that. Italian bond yields skipped by 23bps from a week ago to 1.45%, Spain's by 20bps to 1.43% and heck, Irish bonds were smiling, they didn't budge at all, unchanged at 0.60%. Now for the bad ...

Tempo finds beta growth in Europe, Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... in strategy to now get into more aggressive markets." The manager has moved out of Switzerland, the UK or Sweden and into Spain, the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Singapore. Bracken attributed the change to the fact that those markets are starting to respond ...

Go-it-alone investment culture taking hold in Europe

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... in the rest of the continent. Roughly half of asset managers said their market share will grow in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Sweden. The rest said market share will stay roughly the same and only a tiny minority think it will fall. Angelos Gousios ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... (PFMs) and 14 countries applying for PFM as of 30 March 2015. Hong Kong joins the delegation of China in the negotiations. Spain and Sweden have the intention to apply. Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Taiwan, and Ukraine are under consideration ...

Breathing space or gasping room?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... conditions, Tsipras, in the other hand, promised the Greeks no more austerity. Unlike the 2013 episode, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy's bond yields no longer follow the ups and downs of that of Greece's. The yield on Portugal's 10-year government ...

CFSGAM completes fundraising for European infrastructure fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... (water, gas, electricity, broadcasting towers and transportation) and six countries (UK, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Spain). The Fund's investor base is made up of 49 institutional investors of whom the majority are pension funds and insurance ...