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Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... Consumers (2009) 1. United States 18.8 million barrels per day 2. China 8.3 3. Japan 4.4 4. India 3.1 5. Russia 2.7 6. Brazil 2.5 7. Germany 2.4 8. Saudi Arabia 2.4 9. Korea, South 2.2 10. Canada 2.2 11. Mexico 2.1 12. France 1.8 13. Iran 1.7 14. United ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... time has come as equity markets in the developed economies are starting to outperform those in the fast-growing BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India and China. Bloomberg reports that the MSCI World Index - the benchmark measure for developed equity markets' ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... improvement in the latest purchasing managers indices in China, India, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil, Czech Republic, Turkey... shall I go on? Markit Economics latest report shows that they're all above 50 and rising ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... International Monetary Fund (IMF) conveyed its disappointment over 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 ...

Value a plus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... two years had largely been underwritten by strong expansions in the emerging world, specifically that of China, India, Brazil and Asian countries. This positive force is now coming under threat as emerging market central banks tighten their respective ...

Instos want more rewards for low-carbon assets

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... low-carbon economy. Within the group statement are investors from the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, South Africa, Brazil and Canada including European investors and US public pension funds and state treasurers. There are a number of Australian ...

Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... from the Banco Central do Brasil. "The quantitative easing creates excessive liquidity which overflows to countries like Brazil, and then we have to take measures to address that issue. It does create a problem." Only last month, Brazil's government ...

Pigs are bacon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... eventually find its way into the equity market. So what gives? What gives, my friend, is that America's man told the man in Brazil that the US will not allow the dollar to weaken and that the impact of the Fed's expected QE2 is overestimated. Brazil ...

Planner associations at different stages globally

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... play. All FPAs are members of the global body called Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB), which includes Australia, Brazil, Taiwan, India, China and France among others. The FPSB sets standards at an international basis particularly as it relates ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... supposed to be a very important meeting where the money chiefs of the biggest seven economies in the world plus China, India, Brazil and a handful of others talked about a very important agenda - currency wars. Oh yes, they talked... and talked... and ...