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Quantitative easing eases bank lending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... more than 4%, S&P 500 index went into a correction, Chinese equities recorded their biggest one-day dive since June 2007, Germany's bourse fell into a bear market, commodity prices were dropkicked to a 16-year low - reportedly triggered by China's devaluation ...

Aussies in top five for cashless transactions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... rapid adoption of mobile payments. In particular, 2014 cashless payment volumes in China are predicted to surpass those in Germany, the UK, France, and South Korea. The report says hidden payments, or payments processed through non-bank systems, are ...

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... will remain well above the debt burdens of Aa1-rated peers." Recent events also threaten the strong man of the Eurozone - Germany. Volkswagen's confession that it had cheated on its emission readers is "a catastrophe for the entire German car industry" ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... expectations for a 0.4% print. Growth in the euro area's three biggest economies all came in behind expectations. While growth in Germany quickened to 0.4% in the June quarter from 0.3% in the first, it was less than market expectations for growth of ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... gained 0.40 per cent to 11,257.15 points. The euro fell to $US1.0916 from $US1.0990 late in New York on Wednesday, as Germany's jobless scrolls showed a surprise increase of 9,000 people in July. The unemployment rate stayed at 6.4 per cent in July ...

KKR invests in German fibre-optics via $4.2bn infra fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... (DG). Reggeborgh currently has full ownership of DG, which constructs and manages fibre-optic networks throughout regional Germany and services around 100,000 German households. KKR and Reggeborgh will jointly invest around $660 million to expand DG's ...

86 billion Euros are in the mail, just

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... Parliament to pass the reform proposals on 15 July - the new D-day - and then wait for his benefactors' parliaments (mainly Germany) to approve the deal. Assuming these go without a hitch, 'the institutions' require the Greek government to start passing ...

Temporary trial separation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... like guinea pigs. We'd be better off leaving the Euro and returning to the pound." "Europe is for its people and not for Germany," one placard said. And Germany's response? "I have to go to my constituency and explain to my people in my constituency ...