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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... bonds, associated insurance derivatives and 10 major financial stocks added to a sense of crisis in Europe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's later warning that stringent regulation and fiscal rectitude were needed to ensure the survival of the eurozone ...

Nein to naked shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... BaFin, this is because "massive" short selling "could endanger the stability of the entire financial system." German Chancellor Angela Merkel was more to the point when she said earlier this month that, "In some ways, it's a battle of the politicians ...

Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... Eurozone down with it need only know that Greece's salvation is just an Angela Merkel away. Yes, it's only Germany's Chancellor that stands between Greece's ruin and its salvation. She remains adamant that Greece provides specific plans on how it is ...

Flip-flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... that Eurozone countries would provide half of the non-subsidised loans to Greece, the IMF the rest. At least German Chancellor Angela Merkel is consistent. Herr Merkel noted that Germany would support IMF and European government lending to Greece only ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... Germans have to say about this? Remember they were the most against any Greek rescue. In an ARD TV interview, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that, "It now very important that we are aware that it is our joint currency but also that we get to the ...

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... have a clear mandate... we have a clear no-bailout clause." Michael Meister, financial affairs spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, has the answer -- a bilateral aid or a package put together by a group of countries ...

12 Apostles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009

Damned either way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... The danger I speak of is the action taken by the UK Treasury in its annual budget. In unveiling the Kingdom's budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling announced that the Treasury would raise taxes on people earning 100,000 per year and increase ...

She'll be right mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... and German equities surged by more than 4 per cent while the FTSE-100 gained 3.4 per cent over the week. This despite Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister) Alistair Darling admitting that his country's recession is "worse than we thought" and ...