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The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... when news just hit cyberspace that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) threatened to suspend aid payments to Greece and Cyprus requesting to renegotiate the terms of its bailout. Oh em gee! We're really in trouble now Virginia. We're about to re-live ...

May Day happy day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... margin squeeze, banks would have to lower/raise the deposit rates on their own depositors -- a tax on deposits (oh, no not Cyprus again) - and borrowers. Euro savers will now have to add paying for their savings to higher taxes all around and to the ...

On austerity, growth and expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
... Rogoff - last Friday they just did a Dijsselbloem (remember him? he, the Dutch FinMin and Eurogroup head who said that the Cyprus bail in is not going to be a template after saying it was going to be a template oh, about 10 minutes earlier.). They wrote ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... Sentiment was also boosted after Germany's parliament approved an international bailout package for stricken eurozone member Cyprus by a large majority, but rumours about a French bank running into trouble briefly sent markets sharply down. At the end ...

Windham looks to bring systemic risk strategy to Aussie investors

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... These can be measured by looking at the pricing of securities and how they change over time. "Today markets are resilient. Cyprus had to restructure its debt but the market absorbed the negative information and the prices barely moved," Turton continued. ...

Fool's gold?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... it...US$46,000/oz made less than a year ago. Gold's recent fall was reportedly caused by that teenie-weenie island nation of Cyprus - yes, it's come back to do some more damage. According to Bloomberg, Cyprus "had committed to selling around 400 million ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... while JPMorgan Chase gave up 0.6 per cent. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets fell Friday as the eurozone approved a Cyprus bailout that will see the country take a harder hit, with US retail sales figures also damping sentiment. London's FTSE 100 ...

Super changes ease political and financial uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... to block the latest changes. "'It is a raid on people. Every time a government raids people's funds, there are shades of Cyprus about it," he said.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... 2.0 per cent each, after dealers returned to their desks from the Easter holiday weekend to digest developments over the Cyprus debt crisis. But much of that was given up on Wednesday, when London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies closed with a loss ...

All eyes and ears on Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013