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The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... of the fiscal consolidation over recent years. As members of the Eurozone, Greece's domestic and foreign currency country ceilings remain at Aaa, as do the ceilings for domestic and foreign currency bank deposits. GDP growth: 5.5 per cent Unemployment ...

S&P looks to Africa as investment grows

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... traded value of US$1 million over any three-month period. The index comprises 45 stocks, with no more than 20 from any one country. Three Sydney-listed companies, Extract Resources, Paladin Energy and Resolute Mining, feature on the index. South African ...

China not exporting inflation: AMP/AXA

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... falling, it looks like the price of China's exports has been on the rise." The price of Chinese exports is individual to the country buying them. The US dollar is weak but in Australia, our strong currency is making goods from China affordable. Rather ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... subscribe to this. The simple way to look at this is to imagine what would have happened had they not. Sure, Uncle Sam's country would not be drowning in debt as it is now, but the current unemployment rate of 9.1 per cent would be economic paradise ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... on Wednesday and jobs figures on Thursday. NEW YORK - US stocks dropped sharply on Friday after a dismal report on the country's jobs situation in May. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is in the midst of its longest streak of losses since 2004, following ...

Time for instos to embrace ETFs

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... Management, said the key was offering simple products that were easy to explain to investors. "We are long only, we use single country indexes, small cap warrants, corporate bonds, products that give exposure that we feel comfortable passing onto clients," ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... another flood or cyclone or tsunami -- perhaps even another Gillard -- but if Australian dollar strength persists... the country could literally head down under. Speaking of which, Wall Street erased the previous day's big time gains achieved "despite" ...

Aussie downgrades likely as S&P reviews rating system

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... methodology in the third quarter and implement it in the fourth quarter of this year. Changes to the Banking Industry Country Risk Assessment that S&P collates for 23 countries is likely to see Australia downgraded from Group 1, the safest category in ...

Schroders move $25bn to single platform

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... Dimension platform providing a bi-annual update and moving away from legacy custody-based systems. Australia is the final country to be moved onto the business's Singapore-based investment management system with Hong Kong, Japan and Indonesia migrated ...

GDP down no reason to frown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... magazine is even more flattering. "Many Australians do not seem to appreciate that they live in an unusually successful country."