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Stress test stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
... health from the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) over the weekend. They'll survive a recession and a sovereign debt crisis if they occur. Looks like good news all around. The CEBS found only seven banks unworthy when financial markets ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... with bad corporate news, you're asking for trouble," he said. Mr Taylor said investors had recently been focusing on sovereign debt concerns in Europe and on an economic slowdown in China. But with the US corporate earnings season underway, investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... Street and after Asian markets lost ground. European stocks surged despite news that Moody's had downgraded Portugal's sovereign debt rating, sparking fresh concerns about the eurozone. Traders also took in their stride news of plunging investor confidence ...

Temasek seeks Asian equities fundies

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... equities fund managers looking to win mandates should pay the $150 billion Temasek Holdings another visit, after the sovereign fund flagged plans to boost its Asian portfolios, according to its annual performance report released yesterday. The investment ...

Bored with half-empty glasses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... its economic growth and make it more difficult for Spain to repay its debt? The world has extrapolated the European sovereign debt crisis into the worst of the worst that could happen. Last night's successful bond sale in Spain justifies the Financial ...

Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... their way. It started with the fear of Greece's inability to contain its burgeoning budget deficit and make good on its sovereign debt. Greece can't pay so there must be others? Searching... searching. Yes there are! Markets found Portugal, Spain, Ireland ...

SG survives mining tax deal

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... super mining tax proposal, which would have seriously undermined the industry's international competitiveness, increased sovereign risk and cost jobs," said Mitch Hooke, chief executive at MCA. The Association of Superannuation Funds (ASFA) has welcomed ...

Down on old news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... Index in more than a year, after Moody's Investors Service's warning that it may downgrade Spain revived concern about sovereign debt and snuffed out an earlier rally." Moody's indicated that it could downgrade Spain's top credit rating because of the ...

PM Gillard makes wealth reforms more likely

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... they have repeatedly said they would like some of the $12 billion it will raise in its first two years diverted into a sovereign fund. The Future Fund as a specific purpose fiscal fund with a strong bias towards international assets would not fulfil ...

China proves resilience

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
European markets may have come to a grinding halt due to sovereign debt fears in the region but the latest round of earnings in China show yet again the compelling diversification properties of Asian investments in a typical investor portfolio. Martha ...