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Congress dysfunction hits US bond confidence

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
Political dysfunction in the US has raised concerns the super power may not fully pay bond holders, a risk formerly only associated with emerging market economies. BlackRock Inc has just released its latest 'Willingness to Pay' report that contains ...

Spend, spend, spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... October (we're one day ahead of America, remember). It's just that the uncertainty - and the resulting kick of the US deficit and debt can to 15 January and 7 February - has also put the prospect of any move by the US Federal Reserve to start unwinding ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... US dollar and euro in Monday afternoon trading after data showed Japan logged a record 15th consecutive monthly trade deficit. Tokyo rose 0.91 per cent, or 132.03 points, to 14,693.57; Seoul was flat, edging up 0.61 points to 2,053.01; and Sydney advanced ...

While America was shuttered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
We now resume normal programming, now that the 2013 season of Washington's "when the shutdown meets the ceiling" theatre is over. Let's watch the China channel. The economy's going where PM Li likes it to be - GDP growth quickened to 7.8% in the third ...

Last minute deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... year. Perhaps earlier... for included in the deal is the creation of a bi-partisan panel to come up with long-term budget deficit reduction ideas by the 13th of December. You blink, you lose. Who blinked? Though Democrats made a token gesture of good ...

Investor interest shifts to European credit

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... problems behind with the European Central Bank becoming a lender of last resort and most countries reducing their structural deficit." "Economic growth is picking up and the region is probably putting itself out of recession," he added. While some investors ...

The (brief) shining

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2013

DB schemes decline post-GFC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
Uncertainty in the wake of the global financial crisis has accelerated the move away from defined benefit (DB) retirement schemes, and towards defined contribution (DC) schemes, according the 2013 Create survey. The survey, which included responses ...

Coalition victory to boost business confidence

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... in the Senate. Furthermore, he believes that a potential confidence pick up will be counterbalanced by a growing budget deficit, recently revised from $18 billion to $30 billion for FY14. "Business confidence is the last hope to meet the fall in mining ...

The weekend that could change the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... the budget bottom line.A No wait, there is...hot off the press, Treasurer-in-wishing Hockey just crowed that his budget deficit is smaller than Treasurer-wanting-to-remain-Treasurer Bowen's by a stupendous A$6 billion of it...over the next four years! ...