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South Africa leads foreign investment in the continent

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTD). The report was published ahead of the fifth Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) summit to be held in Durban, South Africa, at the end of this month. It shows that FDI ...

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
Get behind me Satan! I was ever so tempted to simply regurgitate the financial headlines and commentaries and blogs that went blinkety-blink on my screen this morning. It would have made my day a bit easier. The headlines differed yes...but at the same ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
You gotta give it to the Europeans, they sure know how to shoot themselves in the foot. Financial markets celebrated after reports that a deal had been struck between the government of Cyprus and its benefactors. Nobody gave two hoots whether it's a ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... the emerging economies' flag bearers - the BRICs. They're all underwater. Brazilian equities are down by 7.5% to date, Russia's off 3.1%, India's shed 2.9% and China is 0.5% lower. Bloomberg reports that this is because domestic BRIC investors are taking ...

Ben's your uncle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Fed promise soothes Cyprus worries. These five words sum up the financial markets' performance while we slept. Good thing the US Federal Reserve's monthly FOMC meeting came when it did -- right in the midst of another bout of European contagion speculation. ...

No Grexit, no Cyprexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... starting to blink 'ey? So what happens if Cyprus doesn't? Perhaps they'll ease the terms some more, ask for a new vote, Russia would save the day to save its citizens' savings, or heavens forbid...Cyprexit. All you have to do is go back to those horror ...

So stupid it could actually make money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
"The time is right, your perfume fills my head, the stars get red and, oh, the night's so blue And then I go and spoil it all by announcing saying something stupid like "we'll tax you I love you"." My apologies for messing up your immortal classic Frank ...

GSAM offers EM debt to retail

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... ratings, with some countries now moving from junk bond to investment grade status. Goldman Sachs has listed Mexico and Russia as two countries that registered overweight in local rates and currency in their JPM GBI-EM Global Diversified benchmark index. ...

Brazilian CB might need to stop shaving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... The latest available scorecard showed the economy grew by a bit less than 1% in the third quarter. Over the same period, Russia expanded by 3.4%, India by 2.8% and China by 7.4% (7.9% in the December quarter). The Banco Central do Brazil estimates that ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... $US1.3356. HONG KONG - Asian stocks closed mixed while the euro eased and markets awaited the start of a Group of 20 meeting in Russia. Tokyo fell 1.18 per cent, or 133.45 points, to 11,173.83 ahead of the G20 weekend summit where Japan's controversial ...