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Bear killer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
... currently showing at your nearest screens. Greece will meet its budget target, until it doesn't. The country's Finance Ministry revealed that Greece will not, will not, meet its deficit target this year. Surprise of all surprises! The deficit is now ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... convincing way to tackle Greece's sovereign debt crisis. The indexes trimmed heavy earlier losses after the Greek finance ministry reported "productive and substantive" talks with its lenders, the EU, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Central ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... currency markets, boosting shares, but gains were quickly shed as that speculation faded. An official at Japan's Finance Ministry declined to comment on whether intervention has been carried out. In Hong Kong, stocks ended flat as dealers pared earlier ...

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... Japan from its two decade long stupor. From the Financial Times, "A few years ago, a senior official at Japan's finance ministry shocked a foreign guest by making a deliberately provocative statement. "What Japan's economy needs is a really good earthquake," ...

ECB relents, sort of

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... euro, low interest rates and safe haven flows into their bond market. It's been so good for the Germans that its finance ministry even boasted last night that the country's deficit could decline to the European Union's 3 per cent of GDP limit next year. ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... domestic product." And smoking not only boosts economic growth, it'll also bump up the government's coffers. Japan's Finance Ministry estimates that the increased tax on tobacco would raise about 1.97 trillion yen (US$23.5 billion) in government revenues ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... Japanese companies rebounded during the April-June period compared to the previous quarter, a joint survey by the finance ministry and cabinet office showed. The survey, which measures the difference in percentage of firms that expect the economy to ...

No easy gains in Indian equities: Pereira

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... there will be opportunities in 2010 it will be more of a stockpicker's environment," he said. He said the Indian finance ministry predicts economic growth of more than seven per cent for the financial year. The Indian Government said it may be possible ...

Daily economic update

... economy appears to be gaining momentum. In a report at their quarterly meeting in Tokyo, heads of the Japanese Finance Ministry's 11 regional offices noted that all regions in the country are expanding at a moderate pace - the first time since 1997 that ...
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