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Sub-prime divorce binge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... fuelling a spike in divorces among stockbrokers, financial analysts and hedge fund managers. According to a report in the Economist magazine, City couples in London whose wealth was previously enough to let them overlook their differences, are now untying ...

Big lift in company corporate governance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
... major concern. But adding subtlety, the practice is much more entrenched in the US than Australia. According to The Economist magazine, more than 60 per cent of S&P500 companies have a common chief executive and chairman and only 16 per cent have an ...

Super savings on track

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
... billion, off the value of Australian's superannuation savings," he said. Oliver's inflation fears are echoed by the Economist magazine warning that two-thirds of world could soon be confronting double-digit inflation.

Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... credit supply when a boom is on and contract it when businesses really need it to battle slowing market conditions. The Economist in a review of the book said de-regulation of the market which allowed securisations to expand their share of the credit ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... Professor Fischer said the paradox is akin to the problem identified in 1977 as the Dutch Disease, a term developed by The Economist magazine "to describe the decline of the manufacturing sector in the Netherlands after the discovery of natural gas in ...

What US recession?

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
Fears about the US economy plunging into recession have been overstated, overplayed, and blown out of proportion - but the outlook for 2008 still looks fairly benign, according to economists from Lehman Brothers. "There's a 60 per cent chance, in our ...

Jay-Z versus Greenspan

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
... President Richard Fisher have been quite vocal in reassuring the world there's no chance of a US recession. However, The Economist noted that days after the 1929 stock market crash, Harvard Economic Society followed this same reassuring theme, as did ...

Australia IT needs more R&D

... lagged behind other OECD countries on investment in research and development (R&D), according to a new study by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Sponsored by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the study called "The means to compete: Benchmarking IT ...

Economic round-up: BRICs get richer

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... GDP growth and market capitalisation built on the stable performances of the previous year. However, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, a slowdown is expected in real GDP global growth, down from 5.4 per cent in 2006 to a forecast 4.8 per ...

Economic round- up: Cutting the apron strings

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
... extremes. Given slowing housing growth and increased competition on lending spreads, earnings risk is becoming an issue. The Economist recently likened Asia's banks (and to Americans that includes us too) to children with over-protective parents, where ...