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Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
Greece is the word Greece and the US labour market dominated the financial headlines last week. Greece and its efforts to contain its widening budget deficit provides a forward view of how things could escalate from bad to worse and when debts go wild. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
The Australian share market remained significantly lower at noon with investors selling stocks in all sectors on worries about economic recovery around the world. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 127.8 points, or 2.77 per cent ...

Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... America's jobs market may be worsening. Europe had its own bad day as renewed fears about the PIGS - Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain - sent the benchmark Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index down 2.7 per cent. A case of swine flu perhaps? Market sentiment started ...

Top 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... of Scotland, Standard Chartered; Switzerland -- Credit Suisse, UBS; France -- BNP Paribas, SociA(C)tA(C) GA(C)nA(C)rale; Spain - BBVA, Santander; Italy -- Banca Intesa, UniCredit; Germany -- Deutsche Bank; Netherlands - ING. Japan: Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Those who forget the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat it. Are we again giving credit ratings agencies undue credit? Equity and bond markets have been shaken by Standard & Poor's warning that it might downgrade the UK's sovereign credit rating. ...

Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the waters, a pig comes along. And if you've been following the headlines and the pig stories you'll be scared - very scared. Wall Street grew fearful as the reported infection tally of people and countries ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
The Australian share market outperformed its US counterparts during morning trade, losing just 0.4 per cent as financial stocks gave up gains from last week's market rally. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 11.8 points, or 0.33 per cent ...

The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
Central banks threw in the kitchen sink. In a coordinated move, six major world central banks each cut their benchmark target interest rate by 50 basis points in efforts to stem the global panic. The US Federal Reserve lowered the fed funds rate to ...

Global recession coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... cent in the March quarter and 0.5 per cent in the June quarter. Other bigger member nations - Germany, France, Italy and Spain - are also on the brink. The UK - a non-member - is edging closer to a recession while Denmark (another non-member nation) ...

Cracks appearing in Europe

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
Inflation, falls in retail confidence and employment wobbles are leading to housing market worries across Europe. KBC Asset Management's latest world market analysis reveals that the euro area has held up reasonably well in the past few months and even ...