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Don't be disappointed if the ECB disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... corporate financing." Greece with its 27.2% unemployment rate and minus 0.2% inflation certainly needs a rate cut. So does Spain (26.3% jobless rate and 2.4% inflation) and Portugal (16.9% and 0.4%) and Italy (11.6% and 1.6%). If only the ECB's largesse ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... slipped 0.06 per cent to 3,840.47 points. Madrid's IBEX 35 lost 0.29 per cent to 8,365.1 points after official data showed Spain's unemployment rate soared to a new record of 27.16 per cent of the workforce in the first quarter of 2013 and the number ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... unemployment in the country (26.3% as at February). Hopefully contagion works in reverse too with increasing confidence for Spain flowing through into other problem economies in the Eurozone. Then again there's the more immediate decision to make, do ...

Fool's gold?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... the drill. Just like any other story that comes out of the Eurozone, it's about contagion. What if Greece, or Portugal, or Spain, or Italy, or... are forced to the same at their next bailout negotiations? Suddenly, the pendulum has swung the other way. ...

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... takes" Draghi's fighting alongside Uncle Ben. It's because of him that benchmark bond yields in the PIS - Portugal, Ireland, Spain - actually dropped over Q1. Despite the contagion scare, the problem had been localised in Italy and Greece (because Cyprus ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... relatively muted response in Europe to Cyprus' plans for a deposit tax suggested fears of that idea spreading to Italy and Spain were wrong. IG Markets market strategist Evan Lucas said Australia and the Asian region had posted heavy falls on Monday ...

So stupid it could actually make money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... Cyprus is that it is a one-off. But what's next? They could impose a series of one-offs along the way... a one-off to solve Spain's problems, a one-off for Portugal, a one-off for Italy, a one-off for... The Cyprus plan, if it's ratified, also begs the ...

Ripples from a pebble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... sentence didn't you? Ripples from a pebble. This trouble spells bank run in Cyprus that could spread to Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and soon...the entire Eurozone that, in turn, could revisit the crisis in that part of the globe and threaten not ...

The Celtic Tiger gets back its roar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... night. So much so that it's now less expensive for the government to borrow money from investors compared with Italy (4.67%), Spain (4.76%), Portugal (5.92%) and Greece (10.65%). Perhaps austerity isn't all that bad after all. Ireland, after all, is ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
The Australian market is set to open higher as Wall Street posted a small rise and on better news from Spain, where borrowing costs eased. At 0820 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up nine points at 5,123. In economic ...