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Post-Bernanke uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... third quarter. Plus, reports last night show German business confidence improved for a third month in July and get this...Spain's unemployment rate declined to 26.3% in Q2 - the first drop in two years - from 27.2%. Green shoots? Plus, China's started ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... Frankfurt's DAX 30 shed 0.20 per cent to 8,314.23 points and the CAC 40 in Paris dropped 0.43 per cent to 3,923.09 points. Spain's IBEX 35 index however jumped 1.38 per cent to end at 8,116.50 points after an upbeat short-term state bond auction eased ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... levels. Madrid's IBEX 35 index retreated 1 per cent to 8098.30 points after the release of an IMF report signalling an end to Spain's double-dip recession but still warning that more reform was needed to reverse high unemployment. The euro rose to $US1.3404 ...

IFM look to Latin America in latest appointment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... Villen as an external senior adviser to its US$7.1 billion Global Infrastructure Fund. Villen has worked extensively in Spain, including 20 years at Spanish multinational Ferrovial, S.A. His appointment is intended to enhance IFM's strategic industry ...

It'll be on 18 September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... than that of a year ago. Back then, not a few were still warning of a double-dip in America and Europe was boiling with Spain the limelight and renewing contagion fears. Now not a soul dares contemplate an American double-dip nor a contagion made in ...

Out of sight, out of mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... relatively stronger economies of Germany, France and the Netherlands but also in the problem countries of Italy (up 1.5 points), Spain (up 0.1 point) and Portugal (up 1.8 points). To top this all, sentiment climbed to a five-year high in Greece -- that ...

William Blair targets super fund investors with 'game theory'

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... According to Singer, the major players in the eurozone game are the European Central Bank, Germany, France, Italy, Greece and Spain. Up until recently Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy represented the austerity coalition, pursuing their own interests ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... big 4% and 3.7% falls in the equity markets of big budget deficits, high unemployment and recession economies of Italy and Spain, respectively. Latest data show that Italy has an unemployment rate of 11.5% while Spain's is 26.7%. No surprise for these ...

Breaking the bad in the eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... rebalancing its economy, and reducing its fiscal and current account deficits. Recent successful bond auctions held by Portugal, Spain and Italy also confirm investors' renewed confidence in the region. Portugal sold a,-3 billion worth of bonds with ...

Financial markets give the budget a big yawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... This fresh stats just adds to its case, doesn't it? Europe's on the up and up too. How could it not? Not with reports like Spain's 12-month borrowing costs hitting 3-year lows at last night's auction and...wait for it, Fitch upgrading (yes, upgrade) ...