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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... German strike against speculative trading backfired, causing panic among investors instead of reassuring them the authorities were fully in control. Dealers said Germany's unilateral overnight move to ban naked short selling in eurozone government bonds ...

Shocked, not awed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
... shocked, but as it turned out, not completely awed. Shocked at the magnitude of the package. Shocked that European authorities were able to agree -- a coup in itself -- on a common response. Shocked at Spain's deep fiscal spending cuts. But they were ...

Trillion dollar kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... As I keep on insisting on this space for many, many days since the Greek crisis took a turn for the worse, European authorities will do all it can to contain the crisis -- simply because it's in its best interest to do so. With this "mother of all bailouts" ...

Too much ado about Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... in ruins. It's just unfathomable to think otherwise. Not with Lehman Bros' bankruptcy still fresh in the minds of authorities. Not given recent history. The IMF was there during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, the Russian debt default of 1998 and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
... claims. The International Monetary Fund announced it was dispatching a team of experts to Greece at the request of authorities to discuss a possible loan, moving the country a step closer to becoming the first eurozone nation to get an IMF bailout. There ...

CFS GAM appoints ASSET4

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... covering more than 3,000 publicly listed firms. The database also includes a range of information on countries, local authorities, state-owned companies and supranational entities. The research firm will join Trucost, Innovest and a number of other firms ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
... China reined in buying momentum on Asian markets. The markets are wary at the moment about concerns that the monetary authorities in China may start raising interest rates soon to keep a lid on mounting inflationary pressures - figures earlier showed ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... feeling how bad things are, some just bury their heads in the sand. But just as administration and fiscal and monetary authorities have a responsibility to relieve the world's population of the hardship brought upon them by American greed and their own ...

While we wait for payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... bottomline is that a synchronised global recovery is now in train. But it still needs nurturing. Monetary and fiscal authorities must be careful not to commit major policy mistakes going forward.

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... Italy (5.1 per cent) and Germany (3.2 per cent) have all breached the Maastricht covenant! This shows that Eurozone authorities are willing to bend some rules in order to keep the common currency area alive. And despite its tough talk on Greece, the ...