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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... eurozone debt crisis. A euro weakening on worries that Europe's woes now included the health of some banks in addition to sovereign debt problems also weighed on the market. The Nikkei's slide was part of a broad sell-off of risk assets including other ...

Hold, Fold or Run

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2010
... for the global economy. First coin in the fountain. Europe, Europe and Europe. As the weeks roll on, the case of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe appears to be going from bad to ugly. Jitters about the continent's financial stability received a further ...

Euro downs Supermodel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... investment banks' fault. Wasn't it not even a year ago that almost everyone and his dog were diversifying into euros? Sovereign wealth funds and central banks of all persuasions were increasing their eggs in the euro basket. But Gisele Bundchen -- yes ...

China SWF signs resources JV in Canada

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is investing more than $800 million as part of a joint venture to assist in the production of resource assets in Canada. The China Investment Corporation (CIC) formed a joint venture with Penn West Energy Trust to ...

Gold is hip again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... earrings, necklaces, rings, or piercings. That was before the Greek debt crisis threatened to become a full-blown European sovereign debt crisis that threatened to become a full-blown Global Sovereign Crisis. De ja vu. Just like a movie re-run at the ...

Shocked, not awed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
... the air. The rescue package -- not worth US$1 trillion anymore given the euro's decline -- includes loan guarantees on sovereign debts, European Central Bank purchases of government and corporate bonds and provision of unlimited credit to European banks. ...

Investec eyes EM debt, record inflows

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010

Trillion dollar kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... sink at them. The kitchen sink. The EU announced a a,-750 billion (US$966 billion) plan to save the Eurozone from the sovereign debt crisis that's threatening to get out of hand. These funds -- a,-440 billion in loans from Eurozone member nations, a,-60 ...

Feeding the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... Feeding the fear. Times like these, it's not so difficult to do. Just replace the word "Greece" with "global" in Greece sovereign crisis and what do you have? You have Global Sovereign Crisis and the attendant panic and volatility in the financial markets ...

Mining royalties should go into SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... 'mining super profits' tax, a less controversial solution may be putting mining royalties directly into an Australian sovereign wealth fund. Speaking on the ABC TV discussion program Q&A this week, Paul Howes, national secretary of the Australian Workers' ...