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Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... progress towards budget tightening in the United States, Japan, Brazil and Europe. 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 ...

Levy disaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011

Praemium plans Australian Sharia service

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... Praemium will launch an Australian Sharia-compliant service in the next quarter after working with the Islamic Bank of Britain to introduce the UK's only Sharia-compliant retail Discretionary Portfolio Service. Praemium, a financial portfolio administration ...

Queuing for QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... finance minister reiterated his government's commitment to take "decisive" steps if needed to stem the yen's appreciation. Britain's Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) now expects the Bank of England to keep nail interest rates at 0.5 ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... dollar and the euro. Emerging nations are engaging in guerrilla tactics in order not to give ground to "the enemies". Britain is reportedly going to enlist as soon as tomorrow. And China? It's blaming the US, Europe, Japan, et al for their respective ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... more - an action that only encourages China to stay the course. Both actions are causing distaste among Europeans that Britain, the Eurozone and Switzerland have joined the race to the bottom. And what do you get when currencies are becoming worthless ...

Yen sunk but not for long

BENJAMIN ONG IS FINANCIAL STANDARD'S DAILY COLUMNIST ON THE ECONOMY  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010

Banks to raise capital reserves

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... have to raise these funds including Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, CrA(C)dit Agricole and Lloyds in Britain. The group, within it 27 countries representatives including Australia, also announced plans for a leverage ratio that would ...

UK bid to attract Aussie investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... the UK more attractive for local businesses and investors. Currently, Australia is the sixth largest major investor in Britain while the UK is Australia's second largest investor, with Britain the second largest investor globally. In 2009, one third ...

One report, two spins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
"One country, two systems." The first time we heard this phrase was when Britain's 99-year lease of Hong Kong expired on 1 July 1997. Bloomberg reiterated a slightly different version of this phrase last night. "One report, two spins." One report. US ...