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Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... 11.7% remains close to all-time highs... and this hides depression-like 20%-plus rates of joblessness in member nations like Spain (25.9% overall with youth unemployment at 53.9%) and Greece (26.5% overall with youth unemployment at 56.9%). This would ...

Fresh Orient Capital acquisitions expand European operations

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... keeping company Link Group. The acquisitions expand Orient's global footprint in key European markets such as Germany, Russia, Spain and Italy, adding to its existing capabilities in the UK and France. Formerly known as Capital Precision, King Worldwide ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... reverse the developing deflationary risk in the region. More so, because the country breakdown shows that while Germany and Spain's growth pace doubled in the first quarter from the previous one, the French economy produced zero growth while that of ...

Moving on up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... country's rating one notch above investment grade from BBB- to BBB with a stable outlook - now higher than India, Brazil, Spain and Russia. According to Standard & Poor's, "We raised the ratings because we now believe the ongoing reforms to address shortcomings ...

International media question Australia's "austerity budget"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... said that "compared to most countries, Australia is doing relatively well" and added that "this is not Greece, Portugal or Spain." Australia's budget deficit is about 3% of its gross domestic product (GDP), public debt is less than 20% of GDP and unemployment ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... 3.25% -- the lowest since September 2005 - and those for the five years declined to a record low 1.86%. It's the same for Spain where bond yields with two- and five maturities falling to all-time lows to 0.64% and 1.8%, respectively. The tenners fell ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... force. They bear the pressure from economic adjustments. Just look at the economy of the PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain) and Italy - they're economies bore the brunt of adjustment because they're bound by that single currency, the euro. A slowing ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... since the fourth quarter of 2011. You'll get to love it even more when you see that the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) have all expanded in the first quarter -- Portugal up by 0.5%, Italy up by 0.1%, Greece up 0.2%, Spain up 0.3%. Love ya Europe. ...

There's the good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014