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Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... bank. As a result, they can withstand a low oil price quite comfortably. On the other hand countries such as Nigeria, Venezuela and Iran are hard up. Their oil industries have less favourable costs. They cannot afford for the oil price to sag as it has ...

Venezuelan market rally under question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... stars - er, dollars - from the Dow's 117.7% surge from the bottom plumbed on 9 March 2009. But over the same period, the Venezuela's SE General Index, the benchmark equity market index increased by an exponential 1,549.4% (more than a thousand fold). ...

Instos face debate on EM strategy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
... Risk Control managers in debt-only mandates buy even more," Harting told Financial Standard. "They say: we know that Venezuela's a basket case, we know it's going to default, but I'm judged by my clients in terms of my variation versus the debt benchmark ...

New index rates sovereign debt issuers

BLACKROCK RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... Australia ranks fifth on the index as it is institutionally robust. Poor achievers Hungary, Ireland, Egypt, Italy and Venezuela are flagged as having below-average creditworthiness. Greece and Portugal rate poorly coming in at the bottom of the index ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... currencies by forming the Latin Monetary Union. They were joined by Spain and Greece in 1868, and Romania, Bulgaria, Venezuela, Serbia, San Marino in 1889. The Union was disbanded in 1927. The second was the introduction of the Exchange Rate Mechanism ...

Capitalism killed Mars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011

Upside in fixed income: Aberdeen

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... of fixed income, Aberdeen. The asset manager has looked increasingly at emerging markets such as Latin America, where Venezuela is a house favourite, and leans strongly towards Asia. In credit markets in general though, appetite for short duration products ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
Investors may love Wall Street more today than yesterday... but not as much as tomorrow. This was the conclusion you read on this space yesterday. And boy, investors surely loved much more today (yesterday's tomorrow). But lest I get accused on insider ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
The Australian market has received strong, positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with key indices on Wall Street and in Europe clearly higher. Oil and precious metals fell, as investors turned away from their search for safe havens. On the ...

Energy field nationalism to impact investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... in emerging economies. EFIC cites cases of Governments moving to seize control of their resources in countries like Venezuela in their campaign to raise taxes and royalties on petroleum projects and to give their state-owned oil company a majority stake ...