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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 ...

Problems, problems, problems

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... would bring the government down if the Italian Senate votes to expel bunga bunga boy from Parliament. And then there's Greece (again).A It's reportedly gonna have to ask for a bailout (again).A Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras revealed that Greece ...

Out of the woods and into?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013

India's triple dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... -and the G20 believed it). This is the reason why South Korea's protesting the yen's depreciation. This is the reason why Greece regretted joining the euro back in the days -so it could set its own monetary policy to bring down the drachma to help restore ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... words. In fact 'twas so good the Dow and the S&P 500 closed at fresh record highs overnight. So deym excellent that even Greece's stock market surged - the Athens SE General Index jumped by 1.71%. Oh pardon moi, it's such been a long time that you may ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... better-than-expected earnings from US aluminium giant Alcoa and with the eurozone agreeing to release billions of euros in fresh aid for Greece, dealers say. The optimism stayed high even as the International Monetary Fund slashed its global economic ...