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Promises and plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there to be a crisis." This, and the return of relative calm in the financial markets over the past two days - not to mention the big rebound last ...

Glimmer of hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... Yes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Yup, the same uncertainty that causes volatility that prompts a crisis in confidence in financial markets that's now migrating into the real economy. It's likely that next month, we'll find that ...

Social media crises on the rise

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... companies that aren't prepared for an online backlash suffer the most. Recently released research from Altimeter defined a crisis as a negative issue that originates in social media and results in a change in business practice or process, or causes financial ...

Debt crisis not so bad for Latin America

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... Latin America is fairly secure in its position as most countries and companies are unlevered. "So we don't have a risk of a crisis, although some of the exporters to these regions could suffer such as Mexican exporters who do business with the United ...

They will deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... territory, and could trigger another catastrophic financial crisis. It is impossible to know the full impact of such a crisis on overall economic growth and on Treasury's financing costs. However, the lessons from the recent crisis suggest that several ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
The Australian stock market has received negative leads from offshore markets, after Wall Street gave up early gains to finish lower, while oil and metals prices eased overnight. At 0710 AEDT, the June share price index contract was up four points at ...

Infra asset demand buoy CFS GAM and RARE

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... where it needs to go are huge so there is big scope to build energy storage, the importance of which is highlighted by a crisis such as that in Japan," said Meany. CFS GAM has four investments in Japan, one of which has been affected by events in the ...

Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... Portuguese (and perhaps, Spanish and/or Italian and/or Belgian) crisis of 2011. The Portuguese are vehemently denying there's a crisis or that they'll need funding support. But didn't Greece do the same? And Ireland? Both succumbed eventually. Sometime ...

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... so very easy to extrapolate the events in Europe into a gloom and doom scenario that would ultimately reverberate into a crisis everywhere else around the globe. But we've seen this all before. It happened in Latin America, it happened in Russia, it ...

A QEasy road ahead for investors

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... government has run only three surpluses over the past 100 years (1956, 1999 and 2000) and 97 deficits. Hence there is a crisis here brewing." Sherwood said that it was difficult to see how the US could experience the rapid growth needed to reduce its ...