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Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... region. Italian bond yields have soared to a four-year high of 3.62% from just 1.98% at the beginning of the year, after Brussels rejected Rome's proposed budget that would push the deficit to as high as 2.4% of GDP and increase the government debt ...

Chief economist update: The key to ECB taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... resistant to a potential slowdown in global demand", when he spoke before the ECON committee of the European Parliament in Brussels. There's no question about the veracity of Draghi's words. The statistics are there for all to see. The economy expanded ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... central bank and fire up the printing presses to finance welfare spending. Upon becoming president, she plans to go to Brussels to re-negotiate France's status in the EU and to hold a referendum on reintroducing the Franc. (Bloomberg). She's Trump and ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... 300,000 jobs by doing trade deals with fast growing economies across the globe. We can stop sending the £350m we pay Brussels every week. That is why it is safer to vote leave." A more simplistic but perhaps a more convincing argument that Britons can ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
... in December. The March reading is the lowest in 13 months and was conducted before the 22 March terrorist attacks in Brussels. The European Commission attributed the decline in sentiment to deteriorating consumer confidence - down to minus 9.7 in March ...

AustralianSuper makes major play for King's Cross

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... which services six London underground lines, and St Pancras Station, from where Eurostar services connect to Paris and Brussels. The development, with 50 new and refurbished buildings, will have 10.5 hectares of public space including 10 new parks and ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... been rather contradictory, even if some messages seem reassuring, especially on the European side," he said. Sources in Brussels said European leaders are considering holding an emergency summit on Greece this weekend but any decision will depend on ...

Greece in crisis (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... better off without Greece, says Germany's influential council of economic ministers as "very difficult" talks begin in Brussels" - 20 Feb 0427 PM GMT And then (drum roll, trumpet blows)... "Greece and Germany claim victory as deadline day bail-out is ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... index plunged 5.92 per cent to 774.16 points, giving up most of its optimistic eight per cent surge the day before. In Brussels eurozone officials told AFP that at a meeting in Bratislava on Thursday they had war-gamed "worst case" scenarios of Greece ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... 11,332.78 points. In foreign exchange activity, the euro fell to $US1.1230 from $US1.1324 late on Wednesday in New York. In Brussels Thursday Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said differences remained with European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker ...