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PGI appoints CEO for Asia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... international relations from Georgetown University - School of Foreign Service in Washington D.C., and a masters degree in European Union studies at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, where she studied on a Rotary fellowship. She received her ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... 966.72 points. HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks closed higher on Friday as investors welcomed the announcement that the European Union would come to the aid of debt-laden Greece. The Hang Seng index closed up 274.56 points, or 1.32 per cent, at 21,053.11 ...

Flip-flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... clearly be very, very bad." Recall that over the past few days, financial market nerves calmed following reports that European Union leaders have agreed to call in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the Greek rescue. The deal was that Eurozone ...

Fitch scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... not been disproportionately affected by the global downturn, prospects for economic recovery are weaker than 15 European Union peers, which will put pressure on its public finances over the medium term." But what's new? Moody's already downgraded Portugal ...

When old news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... reports pointed back at Greece for the market's good cheer. An unnamed German official was quoted saying that the European Union would help Greece is the country fails to refinance its debts in the capital market. Duh! Why is Greece still a factor in ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... Yes but. But what? Australia survived the global financial crisis...it would survive Greece. And I repeat, the European Union would not let Greece fall into ruins - if not the European Union, the International Monetary Fund. Besides, the Greek worry ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
... profit-taking in Japanese stocks, market players said, after a report saying Greece is not hopeful of aid from the March 25 European Union summit and it may seek aid from the International Monetary Fund in April. The benchmark Nikkei lost 102.95 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... billion shares compared with 926.7 million on Monday. LONDON - European investors gave a positive response to a European Union contingency plan to save Greece from default, sending share prices sprinting higher on Tuesday. But analysts said trading was ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... help from anyone." And what are these structural changes? Well...it's more like another war on speculators. The European Union is now in discussions to ban "purely speculative naked sales on credit default swaps of sovereign debt." Ahhh yes, specyulators ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... markets were buoyed by positive US economic data and the latest Greek austerity package, which received a positive European Union response. Dealers said news that the massive US services sector grew faster than expected in February and that the US private ...