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Smackdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... fright. They're giving these credit-raters the smackdown or my personal favourite, the one-finger salute. Case in point, Italy's ten-year bond auction last night got a good, nay very good, reception considering. Here is Reuter's report, "Tuesday's 3.75 ...

Thrilla in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland and lowest in Greece and in Portugal." The "unlucky niners" are Belgium, Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Hungary. But for all it's worth, the take-away here is that now, at least ...

Waiting for the midnight hour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... nothing at all" until before the next refunding, that is. And based on the schedule compiled by Goldman Sachs, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Ireland and Portugal will have maturing bonds and t-bills amounting to about a,-1.05 trillion this year. ...

All Greeced out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012

Insult me, insult you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... cover its entire deficit - even all of its national debt -- or let it go bankrupt. But it's not. There's Portugal, Spain and Italy in the queue. And if they go, the whole of Europa will burn and its embers could scald us all. The not so bad news is that ...

Cheque's not yet in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... the FTSE even closing on the plus side. And this despite more bad news last night - Moody's downgraded the PITS (Portugal, ITaly and Spain) along with Slovakia, Slovenia and Malta and cut the credit outlook for Britain, France and Austria to negative. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... Trust release full-year results. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed down after Moody's downgrades of debt ratings of Italy, Spain and Portugal and, locally, softer commodity prices dragged the Australian share market almost one per cent lower. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... 1025 AEDT. Macquarie Private Wealth division director Lucinda Chan said Moody's decision to downgrade the debt ratings of Italy, Spain and Portugal was behind the weak start on the local market. "That's obviously given the market the impetus to go downwards," ...

So far so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... not being reflected in Europe's early 2012 equity market performance. The equity markets of recently downgraded France and Italy are up 5.1% and 3.6%, respectively. But what takes the cake is Greece - the country that is on the verge of default, the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... those considered particularly susceptible to a further outbreak of unease in Europe, such as France's Societe Generale and Italy's UniCredit, were buoyed by the news that Germany's second-largest bank, Commerzbank, won't need help from shareholders or ...