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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... key economic indicator pointed to more growth troubles for the eurozone and political developments in France and the Netherlands suggested diminishing support for using drastic budget cuts to fix the debt crisis. A survey of the eurozone's manufacturing ...

Robeco hits Aus shores

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
Netherlands-based asset management firm, Robeco, has expanded into the Australian institutional market, headed up by former Australian head of institutional business at Aberdeen Asset Management, Stephen Dennis. With a focus on Australia's growing domestic ...

EU action has done little but buy time: Aberdeen

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
... risk of mainstream political parties questioning their place in the EU - something which has already occurred in the Netherlands. "The long-term structural problem on the EU is that a fiscal union is not a political union and therefore the monetary union ...

Thrilla in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... Poland and lowest in Greece and in Portugal." The "unlucky niners" are Belgium, Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Hungary. But for all it's worth, the take-away here is that now, at least, we have a ballpark figure ...

Insult me, insult you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... single currency brethrens now prefer Greece to die. Et tu Brutus? According to Reuters, "Germany, Finland and the Netherlands are the countries pushing to delay the package... with Germany the most adamant and suggesting that final approval should only ...

Cheque's not yet in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... already in ruins. A Financial Times report affirms my musing. According to FT, "Hardline officials in Germany, the Netherlands and Finland are increasingly urging a Greek default." Perhaps they've been emboldened by the financial markets' seemingly nonchalant ...

The times, they're not a -changin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... France and Austria. Both countries lost their triple-A and are now rated AA+ -- the same as America. Only Germany, The Netherlands, Finland and Luxembourg retained the precious AAA rating. But for how long, I wonder? Now the heat is on. Europe must do ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... members of the bloc France would be downgraded by one notch, while fellow top-line creditors Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands would be spared. The downgrade could force France's borrowing costs up at a time when it has already been forced to impose ...

HK tops US as most advanced financial economy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... financial markets and access to those markets. The top 10 nations are Hong Kong SAR, the US, UK, Singapore, Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland and Norway. France is ranked 12th and Germany 15th.

PIGS!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... October and Greece is already junked. S&P warned that of the 15 Eurozone members, six countries - Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Finland - face a one-notch downgrade while the remaining nine are staring at a two-step markdown. ...