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Three arrows hitting the spot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... and three also hit the bulleye. Arrow number two is "Abenomics" - or huge government spending. PM Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) plans to spend over US$2.4 trillion worth of public works stimulus (equivalent to about 40% of GDP) over the next 10 ...

Fear is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... outcome would have very heavy consequences for Italy at the European level," Letta, deputy head of Bersani's Democratic Party, said on RAI 3 television. "Based on these projections, more than half of Italians expressed a vote against austerity, against ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... Friday, and set a positive background for President Barack Obama's much-awaited address Thursday night to the Democratic Party's convention, kicking off the final stretch of the presidential race. Under ECB chief Mario Draghi's revamped program, the ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... judging from austerity crusader Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) recent defeat to the pro-growth Social Democratic Party (SPD) at the North Rhine-Westphalia elections, even German voters appear to be turning their backs against austerity. Merkel's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... prices closed up 0.61 per cent on Monday after Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda was elected leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, making him set to become the nation's new premier. Stocks saw choppy trade and closed below intraday highs, following ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... before the global economic recession hit the country and will peak only in the mid-2020s... In our opinion, the Democratic Party of Japan-led government lacks a coherent strategy to address these negative aspects of the country's debt dynamics, in part ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... cent, to 3,567.66 points. TOKYO - Japanese shares were hit by concerns about policy deadlock after the ruling Democratic Party of Japan lost control of the Upper House of parliament at a weekend election. Having gone into the election seeking a stable ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... or 0.13 per cent, at 9,901.19 points. The Nikkei saw a moderate rise early in the afternoon after the ruling Democratic Party of Japan elected former finance minister Naoto Kan as its new leader. Profit-taking quickly emerged to push the index back into ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... Hatoyama's resignation triggered a volatile day of trade. Hatoyama's resignation came less than nine months after his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) took power following a landslide election win. The embattled premier has since seen his poll ratings ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... square one. The Japanese national elections held at the end of August brought "another" end to an era of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) stranglehold on power. "Another" because the LDP's continuous reign since 1955was interrupted by the election of the ...