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Much ado, no do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... Europe is out of the headlines? Speaking of which, Moody's has just done to Italy what it did to Spain, which it did to Greece. Moody's slashed the ratings of 13 Italian banks - including UniCredit (the biggest) and Intesa Sanpaolo (the second biggest) ...

It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... this year and 2.0% in 2013 -- and these, without subjecting the Filipinos to Europe-style austerity measures. Thus, while Greece et.al. are at the chopping end of credit downgrades, the Philippines is getting upgraded. Only last week, Standard & Poor's ...

Waiting on the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... to be all that financial markets have been doing - waiting for the result of the French and Greek elections, waiting for Greece's election mark 2, waiting on the G-20 summit, waiting on the Fed's monetary policy decision, waiting on the EU Summit - and ...

Can this latest kick of the can can?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
... member that is too big to fail and too big to bail. Remember it was once Spain? Because its debt was more than those of Greece, Ireland and Portugal combined? But with the pledge of a a,-100 billion rescue - along with Germany's concession that the ESM ...

Is this the crisis moment?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... news: Moody's downgraded 28 Spanish banks by four notches. Spain formalised request for bail out Cyprus asks for bailout. Greece newly-designated finance minister, Vassilis Rapanos, resigns. Victorious Greek pro-austerity party preparing to renegotiate ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... come up with a plan to support weaker economies and avoid economic collapse. The talks come as debt woes have spread from Greece to Spain, which is enveloped by a banking and economic crisis, while Italy is also in danger of succumbing. WELLINGTON - ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... debt. Bond markets sent the yield on its bond surging past the "request for bailout mark" of 7%. Boo! Last week, it was Greece's turn. Markets got what they wanted - a victory by the pro-bailout, pro-austerity party. Same old, same old. The hoorays gave ...

Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... downgraded in moves that may shake up competition among Wall Street's biggest firms." And lest we forget, there's still Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, perhaps soon France and finally Germany. There are rumours here, gossips there and speculations ...

Fed twists again like it did last summer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... growth and raised unemployment forecasts for Wall Street's stumble. Seems like the denizens of Wall Street have caught the Greece disease - they want to have their cake and eat it too. They wanted Fed stimulation - heck, they were even disappointed that ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... Reserve would announce more stimulus to boost the world's biggest economy and as a government emerged in crisis-struck Greece. The European single currency rose versus the dollar as traders also digested the outcome of a G20 summit aimed at stamping ...