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Not in the mood for bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... Portugal is the other Greece - and perhaps someday, the entire Eurozone would turn Greek, when the debt 'can' European authorities are kicking runs out of road. Wall Street ended higher despite (could easily be 'because') news that the People's Bank ...

Minister faces down advisers over opt-in, risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... Electoral Commission website, and that if he had any concerns on how a fund is managed, to report them to the relevant authorities such as Australian Prudential Regulation Authority.

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... default. It's just in too deep in the hole it dug itself in. Short of kicking the can further down the road, European authorities can't seem to agree on a workable solution to the problem. But even if they do, Greece is stuffed turkey. And if it is ...

European authorities will blink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... lands and state companies. Sure Greece's private creditors would 'volunteer' if they're not certain that Eurozone authorities will blink. What would Europe's finance ministers do if they don't? Sure, Greece can enact all the austerity measures and perhaps ...

The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... and result in a restructuring of existing debt. Moreover, the risk of a post-2013 restructuring might lead the Greek authorities and investors to participate in a voluntary distressed exchange before that time. 09 May 2011 -- Moody's Investors Service ...

Back to cactus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... about that." It's a real bad hair day for risk assets today, made even worse by the continued failure of European authorities to agree on how to salvage the Greek ruins. This is compounded by the re-ignition of violent protests on the streets of Athens ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... drowning in debt as it is now, but the current unemployment rate of 9.1 per cent would be economic paradise had American authorities not done a Keynes -- in the 1930s depression, the jobless rate surged to 25 per cent. The Fed still has Q3 as an option ...

Super crime loophole to snap shut

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... example, that a drug importer could put their ill-gotten millions into superannuation and it would be untouchable by the authorities, though the criminal be sent to jail. All that will change from July 1, if the Government gets its way. Treasury has ...

ETF provider soothes market over risk issues

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... provider iShares has moved to reassure the market that Australian ETFs are not risky in the wake of warnings from global authorities about transparency and leverage issues. The Financial Stability Board, an international watch-dog, warned on April 12 ...

Janus pools $660m in Global Research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... Monitoring has no teeth to it in the sense that you're simply observing what has happened and reporting that to other authorities. That, to me, is not a value-add." "But what we consider to be somewhat of a distinctive edge at Janus is the fact that ...