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It's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... Europe, nothing beats printing the prospect of a Greek default in the headlines. The reasoning being that if Greek defaults, Ireland and Portugal and Spain and Italy are in the hock. And soon it'll be the entire Eurozone. Moody's is the torchbearer on ...

May go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... pestering (festering?) crisis in Europe. And no, I'm not talking about the potential restructuring (default) by Greece or Ireland or Portugal, I'm more concerned over the negative impact of the severe fiscal spending retrenchment these countries and ...

Much ado over a known known

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... risks eroding its standing at the core of the global monetary system." So true. We're witnessing these unfold in Greece, Ireland, Portugal and... Dear, oh dear. But look again! It seems not all are taking Standard & Poor's warning to heart. The bond ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... record highs as they put their money in the traditional safe haven. The euro slipped, meanwhile, as a Moody's downgrade for Ireland and a new Greek austerity plan stoked concerns that the eurozone debt crisis remains far from resolved, with Portugal's ...

China surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... the same old refrain out of Europe. Sovereign bond yields jumped overnight led by none other than the PIGIS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain). The trigger? Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told his country's Die Welt newspaper that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... billion), which would be linked to strict austerity measures. Portugal is the third eurozone country after Greece and Ireland to request a bailout and its plight has increased speculation that Spain - the fourth largest economy of the 17 countries which ...

Yikes the ECB hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... 1.25 per cent after holding it at an "emergency" low of 1.0 per cent since May 2009. With Portugal joining Greece and Ireland in the "begging for funding" list just a day before the ECB Governing Council's decision - and the litany of uncertainties still ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... 1.00 per cent was widely anticipated. Portugal's decision to seek a debt rescue from the EU and IMF, after Greece and Ireland last year, was no surprise and had little market impact. The Lisbon market closed 1.18 per cent higher, helped by an end to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... markets increasingly believe that Lisbon will be forced to seek outside help, like fellow eurozone strugglers Greece and Ireland last year, and are demanding ever higher rates of return to provide fresh funds to cover its debt. It would be the ECB's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... Thursday, when the Federal Reserve released data on which institutions took emergency loans during the financial crisis and Ireland revealed yet more damage to its banking sector. LONDON - European stock markets closed higher on Friday after a stronger-than-expected ...