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Losing triple A by trying to maintain AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013

Value in EM debt and bank loans for bond investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... strength in countries from outside the G20. Mexico, one of Invesco preferred fixed income regions, has less debt and better GDP growth than the more established bond markets, for instance. It also has a fundamentally improving credit rating. Despite ...

A lesson against austerity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... pulled out all the stops and it appears to be working. And does it care that it's predicted 2013 budget deficit of 8.9% of GDP is one of the highest (if not the highest in the globe) and its debt as a percent of GDP (around 220% of GDP in 2012) the biggest? ...

On austerity, growth and expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
... the year after last year (4.2K). The same holds true for the US. It was on full display at the end of last week's trading. GDP grows stronger but disappoints. First quarter US real GDP came in at an annualised rate of 2.5%, disappointing expectations ...

Fund managers tip great returns on US investments

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... the energy revolution, manufacturing renaissance and a pickup in the housing market, have provided the ingredients for US GDP to accelerate into 2014," Potter explained. "Whilst the market has had a good run of late, and the S&P 500 is close to reaching ...

Three arrows hitting the spot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) plans to spend over US$2.4 trillion worth of public works stimulus (equivalent to about 40% of GDP) over the next 10 years. The third arrow is including structural reforms such as trade deregulation and public-private support ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) downgrade of global economic growth from 3.3% to 3.5%, China's disappointing 7.7% GDP scorecard in the first quarter, anxiety over renewed terrorist threats in the USA after the Boston bombings and North Korea's ...

Use super to help pay health costs: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... in the five decades between 2005 and 2050 the cost of Australia's universal health care system will almost double to 7% of GDP. While this growth can be contained by some structural reforms, 40% of it is still due to aging and population factors and ...

Boston Bombs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2013
... may have retired but new Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang is making sure Wen still gets what Wen wants -- that of a 7.5% GDP growth and that of shifting China's growth driver from external to domestic consumption. China national stats data show that ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... numbers today," CMC Markets senior trader Tim Waterer told AAP. "This afternoon the tone will be set by numbers on China's GDP and retail sales... if they miss the mark on the low side it could exacerbate selling." Gold miners were the worst-performing ...