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Change of heart

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... viability of the Eurozone as an integrated economic area have emerged as a result of ballooning budget deficits in Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Italy, among others. And this is beginning to have a negative impact on overall Eurozone economic ...

Love thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... Double-dip here we come? Saving Greece alone is not such a big problem. But where would European nations stop? Ireland? Portugal? Spain? UK? And oh speaking of the UK, one well-known Australian politician is moving there for good because according to ...

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... per cent of GDP, Ireland is expected to produce a 2009 budget deficit of 13.6 per cent of GDP, Spain 11.8 per cent and Portugal 8.1 per cent. It was not supposed to be this way. Why wasn't profligate government spending stopped when it hit 3.1 per cent ...

Australia better than triple A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... or sink together. The Eurozone? Not with the headlines the PIGS are getting these days. Barclays Capital reported that Portugal's external liabilities are running at Portugal at 108 per cent (a,-177bil) of GDP, Ireland at 68 per cent (a,-123bil), Greece ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... over the sustainability of the global economic recovery. Concerns have grown that some European countries -- Greece, Portugal and Spain -- may not be able to handle their mounting levels of debt. Stocks have also been hurt by China's plans to contain ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... freeze wage rise and raise the retirement age. All in the name of deficit reduction. What is happening in Greece and Portugal and Ireland and Spain serves a warning to other highly indebted countries. This is where the classic phrase, "caught between ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... the unemployment rate and the pace of recovery in the US. "The overnight (US) jobless claims disappointed, and Greece, Portugal and Spain all look like they could be in trouble. So this is quite serious. "It tells the market that not only are we (not) ...

Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... indications that America's jobs market may be worsening. Europe had its own bad day as renewed fears about the PIGS - Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain - sent the benchmark Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index down 2.7 per cent. A case of swine flu perhaps? Market ...

Positive contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... Virginia) suddenly the 'jitters of January' appears to have suddenly went puff. China? Greece and the rest of the PIGS - Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain? Budget deficits? Joblessness? All because of 1 February 2010's wonderful set of purchasing managers ...

Wall Street v Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... Massachusetts. Sure, there's also China - and it's fine tuning (yes, fine-tuning, not tightening) and there are the PIGIS' (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain) debt problem for the Eurozone. And news out overnight showed that the UK unconvincingly ...