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All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... Survey show investors anticipate equities to rise in seven countries -- Brazil, Italy, UK, France, Mexico, Japan, Switzerland - in the next six months. Note that optimism is infectious and therefore, it would not be surprising to see these seven countries ...

Future lies in present

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... reforms in the US, calls for tighter financial regulation in the UK and powers to break up 'too big to fail' banks in Switzerland. Naturally, financial markets became concerned for it introduces another uncertainty. How wide and far-reaching will these ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... 47.2 AAA 3. Belgium 1,618 155 327 80.8 AA+ 4. Hong Kong 660 94 295 14.5 AA+ 5. Netherlands 2,439 146 268 43.0 AAA 6. Switzerland 1,304 171 264 44.0 AAA 7. Austria 827 101 191 58.8 AAA 8. Portugal 485 45 190 64.2 A+ 9. France 5,001 78 168 67.0 AAA 10. ...

To Scotland we will go

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... Chinese money disappear faster than you could say yum cha. The US could also reason that the Swiss started it this time. Switzerland's financial system hadn't been affected as much as other countries by the liquidity squeeze. In fact its currency - considered ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... doom and gloom, market's dismissed European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet's press conference in Basel, Switzerland. Monsieur Trichet stated that, 'We have a number of elements suggesting that we're approaching the moment where we're having ...

2009: The lost year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Happy new year? Perhaps in 2010. The top central bankers meeting in Basel Switzerland came to the same conclusion yesterday. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet -- wearing his cap as head of the Bank of International Settlements - declared ...

All together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... financial crisis. For on this very same day in 1920, the League of Nations also held its first general assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. Wikipedia described the League of Nations as 'an international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... produced the mother of all rate cuts. Last week central banks in Australia, South Korea, India, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Switzerland and the Eurozone all cut interest rates by between 25 and 75 basis points. But the Crocodile Dundees at the BoE showed ...

HFs continue to outperform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... -25.59 per cent over the same period. These results come after a number of countries including UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Ireland and Australia banned naked short selling in September. Despite continued bad markets, hedge fund managers are slightly ...