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Happily dreaming of the end

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
... from hopes that Europe will boost the capital of its banks suffering from the public debt crises in Greece, Ireland and Portugal. Bank of America surged 6.4 per cent, JPMorgan Chase was up 5.2 per cent and American Express added 4.7 per cent. Apple leaped ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... is trying to contain a government debt crisis that has already seen three countries bailed out - Greece, Ireland and Portugal. Italy and Spain are widely considered too big to rescue. Westpac New Zealand senior market strategist Imre Speizer said another ...

Ben calls on JMK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... exposures both to foreign sovereigns and to foreign banks. The exposures of U.S. banks to the most troubled sovereigns -- Portugal, Ireland and Greece -- is quite minimal. So the direct exposures there are not large." However, he also warned that, "...if ...

Promises and plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... recapitalisation of European banks to the tune of "tens of billions of euros" to provide a "firebreak" around Greece, Portugal and Ireland and prevent the crisis from spreading to too big to fail Spain and Italy; (2) raise the European Financial Stability ...

Glimmer of hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... Market" listed the direct and indirect exposure of US and European banks to the sovereign debts of Greece, Ireland and Portugal. European creditors have a 70.6% exposure to Greek debt, 67.9% to Ireland and 68.5% to Portugal. America is not exposed directly ...

Find me that silver bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... the entire Eurozone - perhaps the world - down. But haven't we seen this movie before? Each time Greece (or Ireland or Portugal or Spain) is due to rollover their funding? First there's admonition about the progress on their austerity measures, then ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... the ECB's controversial program of buying government bonds of deeply indebted eurozone countries like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy. "The markets are falling sharply because there is a lot of fear that there might be a European sovereign ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... economies of Germany and France. The bonds would provide a source of finance for the debt-laden countries such as Greece, Portugal and Ireland at a better rate of interest. "This is a small story but it's a small positive step," Mr Speizer said. In Australia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... fire amid signs of government infighting and fears the eurozone's third biggest economy could join Greece, Ireland and Portugal into a debt spiral. Investors were also closely following the second-quarter earnings season, which is in full flow across ...