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Growth spoiler

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... would take a beating over the next few quarters. And the Federal Government worries that it would not be able to return the Budget into surplus by 2012/13? Overall, the impact of the flood on the domestic economy might be devastating (during the Queensland ...

Santa's in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... sustainable recovery - enough to enable the government to offset the potential loss in revenue and potential increase in the budget deficit that this fiscal largesse generates.

Rise of Asia bonds: Temasek

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... chief financial officer of Temasek Holdings, said the market expects some US$17 trillion of public debt refinancing and budget funding obligations to come due from US, UK, Japan and Eurozone over the next three years. "The Asian and Singapore bond markets ...

Confidence will return to Ireland: Govt

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... confidence for the international markets and for Irish citizens that we can restore order to the public finances, reach our budget deficit target of 3pc of Gross Domestic Product by 2014 and stimulate economic recovery by investing in enterprise and ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... year. Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen announced that he would call for an election after the passing of the government budget in December. But "If anything can go wrong..." The fear is that the new government could renege on the agreement. Nothing and ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... completely divulging the extent of their bond holdings. But you know what I think? It's the current wave of the cut the budget deficit (now!), trim fiscal spending (now!) and all sorts of anti-Keynesian outcry that's giving governments this problem. ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... jumped 6.0 per cent over the month 53.0 per cent in the year. You want more good news? The US Treasury reported that the US budget deficit dropped to US$140.4 billion in October from US$176.4 billion a year ago. And why is this so? This is because of ...

Lower tax rate opens local property to foreign investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... Richard Ellis (CBRE ) and Echo Capital are targeting foreign investors with new property products in Australia after the May budget revised the national withholding tax rate to a more favourable 7.5 per cent. The new strategic alliance, MITSA (Managed ...

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... government's found an unquestionable reason to spend... and they spent big. Data from usgovernmentspending.com shows the US annual budget deficit jumped from below five percent of GDP in the 1930s to close to 30 per cent of GDP in the 1940s. And now ...

Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... Federal Reserve and its QE2. Tomorrow's data on US retail sales, consumer confidence, Empire State manufacturing and the budget statement should provide better indications if we are, in fact, going to get QE2.