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International media question Australia's "austerity budget"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... night. The journalist said that "compared to most countries, Australia is doing relatively well" and added that "this is not Greece, Portugal or Spain." Australia's budget deficit is about 3% of its gross domestic product (GDP), public debt is less than ...

BNP Paribas signs up to TARGET 2

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... uniformity to securities transactions in Europe. The first wave of TS2 roll outs is due in June 2015 in Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Romania and Malta. Commenting on the announcement, Alain Pochet, head of clearing and custody services for BNP Paribas ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... ended mixed after a topsy-turvy trading session, as weak Chinese data outweighed a triumphant return to the bond markets in Greece and positive news from the US jobs market. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index eked out a 0.10 per cent gain to 6,641.97 ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... dear oh dear! It's certainly a worry, ain't it? Just imagine the budget deficit widening by 1% of GDP every six months? Greece's budget would be every credit investors' nirvana compared to Australia's. Well that's if you extrapolate current trends into ...

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... equilibrating force. They bear the pressure from economic adjustments. Just look at the economy of the PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain) and Italy - they're economies bore the brunt of adjustment because they're bound by that single currency, the ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... year-on-year rate since the fourth quarter of 2011. You'll get to love it even more when you see that the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) have all expanded in the first quarter -- Portugal up by 0.5%, Italy up by 0.1%, Greece up 0.2%, Spain ...

There's the good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014

Developed economies to outshine emerging world in 2014

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... benefit the developed world, particularly in Europe. "Unit labour costs are coming down in countries like Spain, Portugal, Greece and Ireland. So these nations are becoming relatively more competitive and potentially adding to pressures on China and ...

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... highest reading in more than two years -- from 50.5 in July.A And it was broad-based.A Indeed, for apart from France and Greece, the output indices in respective eurozone member states have all broken above the 50 expansion/contraction mark last month. ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... China slowdown, eurozone crisis - courtesy of Cyprexit, Italian and Spanish political uncertainty (if I remember right, Greece was there too) - the Boston Marathon bombings and who could forget Duke Nu-Kim' Jong Un.A Not only that, these happened at ...