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Savings paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... index closed 4.6 per cent up yesterday. Stronger than the UK - the FTSE-100 index rose by 4.9 per cent. Stronger than the Eurozone - the Euro Stoxx index gained 5.5 per cent. The cheque is in the mail. Perhaps domestic investors were worried that the ...

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... pushing on a string - if not already - was further hammered home by the ECB's downgrading of its growth estimate for the Eurozone to between minus 3.2 per cent and minus 2.2 per cent. Previously, it predicted the region's economy would grow by between ...

GFC in a fortnight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... (slumping industrial production). Falling industrial output leads to less imported inputs demanded from other countries (UK, Eurozone and Japan go into recession). The process is repeated in these countries and the negative loop-the-loop plays all over ...

Biggest Loser Part 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
The contest for 'The Biggest Loser' went into full swing as bad news continued to flow. Right on the heels of the Eurozone's 1.5 per cent economic contraction in the fourth quarter, Japan's weigh in showed that its economy lost more, down 3.3 per cent ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
Like its rich world counterparts, the Eurozone economy is contracting and the outlook for this year is non-the-brighter. But while the central banks of the US, Japan and the UK raced to the zero interest rate line, the European Central Bank (ECB) appears ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... 1,546.24. LONDON - Global equities were mixed on Thursday as investors digested interest rate decisions in Britain and the eurozone plus weaker-than-expected US jobs data, dealers said. The Bank of England slashed British interest rates by half a percentage ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... cent, to 825.88. LONDON - European stock markets dropped on Friday after the release of data showing unemployment in the eurozone at a two-year high and the sharpest quarterly contraction in the US economy since 1982. London's FTSE 100 index closed down ...

Bigger fish to fry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... fortunate enough to avoid being drag into the vortex that has sunk much bigger economies down the drain. The US, Japan, the Eurozone and the UK are sinking -- nay, they are drowning. Even China has slowed. The threat that Australia will get sucked into ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... looking like a never-ending downward spiral. The Australian term for this is "sucked in". The big economies of Japan, the Eurozone, Britain and now even China have been 'sucked in'. In time, no matter how much positive spin we put on Australia, if the ...

Cognacs and chocolates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... Europe Standard & Poor's slashed Greece sovereign rating leading to speculation of a similar downgrade for the entire Eurozone economy. Again, where there's smoke.... Back to America, Citigroup - after ceding control of its Smith Barney retail broking ...