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Threat of Lehmannisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Not as good as it got before. Wall Street ended last week's activity with a performance you wouldn't write home to your mother about. So did equity markets in Europe. But Asian markets were strong. Is decoupling back? Looking at last week's stock market ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
You've been warned, Australia! Standard & Poor's and Moody's threatened Australia with a downgrade in its sovereign risk rating if the National Budget remains in deficit over the medium term. My, oh my, I am so scared. And so we all should be. Because ...

Fed Budget year to date February deficit of $4.455 billion

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2004
... into and out of government coffers, and do not have any impact on official forecasts. Senator Minchin said the Budget balance was dragged down by lower tax receipts, as expected, as quarterly GST payments were pushed into March. More money was paid out ...

Greater fiscal discipline needed: OECD

The Australian government should maintain its fiscal objective of keeping the budget balanced over the economic cycle and allow fiscal policy to play a stabilisation role through the operation of the automatic stabilisers, according to a report from ...

OECD predicts gradual resumption of economic growth

The 30-member Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said that while the global economic outlook is for a gradual resumption of growth there are still significant risks to the strength of the recovery, primarily, the build up in ...
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