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The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... country's institutions, which underpins Greece's comparatively low sovereign rating, with Malta the lowest among euro area sovereigns. Moreover, the global financial and economic crisis is eroding the country's fiscal margin for manoeuvre. ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... While it lauded moves by Germany, France, Britain and Spain towards deficit reduction, it also warned that, "In the euro area, a more comprehensive approach to crisis management is needed that could break the fiscal-financial spiral and reduce the risk ...

Ireland gives in to EU bailout

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... Euro-area member states...providing assistance to Ireland is warranted to safeguard financial stability in the EU and in the euro area," Euro-area finance ministers said in a statement. "A comprehensive range of measures - including deleveraging and ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... revealed that the Eurozone economy grew stronger than originally measured. Eurostat revised its initial estimate of euro area real GDP growth from 1.7 per cent in the year to the second quarter to a faster expansion of 1.9 per cent. Not only that, it ...

L-U-V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... domestic product - yearly changes %' in particular. What do you see? You see the GDP growth pattern of the USA, Japan, Euro area, and the OECD as a whole in the shape of a V. This is almost similar to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) revised forecast ...

Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... equities have welcomed the massive liquidity injections by both fiscal and monetary authorities. Equity markets in the Euro area continue to rebound sharply as the year 2009 marched on, boosted by steadily rising economic confidence and better-than-expected ...

U V W X Y Z

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... markets (China, India, Brazil, parts of Asia and Latin America. Other advanced economies (US, UK, Spain, Italy and other euro area countries) and emerging European countries would not see the end of recession before 2009 is over. Q: What will be the ...

Some Needed Good News

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... biggest economy in the Eurozone, it is more than likely that this elevated inflation reading will be translated into the euro area as a whole, and will cause discomfort for the European Central Bank In Australia, June building approvals will be released ...

This Week's Market Movers (21-25 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... (PMI) for the Eurozone as a whole and for France and Germany are expected to contract further in July, reflecting the euro area's cooling growth resulting from the higher interest rates and the more expensive currency, among others. In the UK, the Bank ...

Cracks appearing in Europe

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
... leading to housing market worries across Europe. KBC Asset Management's latest world market analysis reveals that the euro area has held up reasonably well in the past few months and even defied the odds to record robust growth in the first quarter ...