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Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... The Sensex 30 index is up a full 9% to date. This is despite the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) recent downgrade of the country's growth outlook. The ADB lowered its forecasts for the Indian economy to 5.6% in 2012 and 6.7% next year from 7.0% and 7.5% ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... China and Asia equals deteriorating external accounts in Australia. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that the country's trade deficit widened to A$2 billion in August from A$1.5 billion in the previous month - the widest in more than four ...

Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... European Central Bank announced Outright Monetary Transactions. Germany's court found that the EFSF/ESM is in accord with the country's constitution. The US Federal Reserve set QE3 in motion. Even those we didn't expect to do did. The Bank of Japan announced ...

Equity Trustees names key account manager

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... a further step in the business's strategy to grow its distribution in NSW. "NSW has the largest adviser market in the country and Caitriona's experience and background will help us further expand the firm's approach and offerings in this important market," ...

Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... economic chief Olli Rehn. What the? I don't know about you but isn't this a perverse reaction? Markets rebounded because a country is choking its economy with tougher austerity so that it can borrow more? Remember the time when mere hints that Greece ...

China slowdown hits rich list

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... released by the Hurun Report this week showed that for the first time since 2005 the number of USD-value billionaires in the country has declined, dropping by 20 over the past year to number 251. In another interesting indication of how China's economic ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... billion euros ($A49 billion) in cutbacks. The expected spending cuts have triggered mass demonstrations in the debt-stricken country. Spanish Prime Mariano Rajoy was quoted, in the Wall Street Journal, as saying that if Spain's borrowing costs were "too ...

The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... lack of faith at the recent action of the institution he serves, add rumours that a region threatens to secede from a country in a region that's desperately trying to stay as one, and what do we get? We get a problem Houston. That central banker is no ...

Strong premium growth countered by claims costs

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... million, while underwriting surplus fell from $1,229 million to a deficit of $438 million. The survey also showed that the country's insurers achieved profits of $2.51 billion in 2011-12, down 18.5% from $3.08 billion in 2010-11. Ian Moyser, insurance ...

Abbott government to index military pensions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... the Consumer Price Index, it's even less fair to apply solely that index to those who have risked their lives for our country," said Abbott. "Loyalty goes both ways. The very least we can do is pay ex-servicemen and women a retirement benefit that increases ...