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Australia's big bro

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... 4.8 per cent of Australian exports were shipped to the US during the same period - or that 27 countries in the European Union combined only bought 7.9 per cent of Australia's shipments. And despite international angst about China's overvalued currency ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... "fears (for Greek solvency) are not justified... in light of the European aid" plan, announced in early May. The European Union and the International Monetary Fund have agreed to provide Greece with 110 billion euros ($A154.97 billion) in loans at below ...

World-class Aussie funds reach Europe through UCITS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
European Union laws that come into effect next year will allow Australian fund managers to invest funds for overseas investors with less admin headaches. It's the new world breaking into the old world. Australian fund managers, many of whom could trace ...

Going nowhere fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... the CPI that matters more for the Fed....and the rumours: Spanish daily newspaper El Economista reported that the European Union, the IMF and the US Treasury are in talks with Spanish officials involving the provision of a credit line for Spanish banks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... over global economic prospects. Spanish press reports said the International Monetary Fund was working with the European Union and Washington on a rescue plan for Spain, plagued by big public deficits and credit difficulties confronting its banks, worth ...

Detox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... turns. Five days of uncertainty... and markets hate uncertainty. Fingers were pointed. At the Greeks. Despite the European Union/IMF a,-750 billion bailout pact, financial markets didn't trust Greece to be able to withstand the debilitating effects on ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... over the eurozone's debt troubles. Shares followed a fall on the Dow, where scepticism set in about whether the European Union's nearly $US1 trillion ($A1.18 trillion) bailout plan can contain the damage caused by Greece's debt woes. Hong Kong's benchmark ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... limit some kinds of short selling fed Wall Street's drop. The euro gave stocks a boost early in the day when 10 European Union countries sent bailout money to Greece. The move raised confidence about Europe's ability to prevent its debt crisis from spreading ...

Gold is hip again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... are again subscribing to Murphy's Law. After a collective shout of hallelujah, financial markets now consider the European Union/IMF 750 billion rescue package either as insufficient, or a step towards the wrong direction -- moral hazard -- or impotent ...

Shocked, not awed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
... movements -- yes, those downs... then ups... then downs -- we've seen this week immediately before and after the European Union's announcement of a 750 billion bail out package indicate that the smell of fear still lingers in the air. The rescue package ...