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Money flows lead to Africa

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... which suffered 29 per cent declines from 2007 to 2008. Developing nations and transition economies grew their share in global FDI flows to 43 per cent in 2008, noted the report. The UN also noted a "marked downturn" in FDI by private equity funds across ...

Hermaphrodite economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
The more things change, the more they stay the same. There is very little to comment on today. The global economy is proceeding on course as many -if not most - expect. The current investment environment contains both plusses and minuses. Much like ...

Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
"War is over, if you want it, want is over now" (John Lennon) Wall Street have resumed its upward trek after tripping some weeks back as number crunchers lowered company profit expectations and the dumping of warm bodies on the unemployment heap continued ...

De-stressing the stress test

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
Only a couple of weeks ago the US triad - US Federal Reserve, Treasury and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - were stressing over how best to release the result of the stress test they issued to 19 of their banks. They found a way. Back ...

Sober and sombre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
True to script, Wall Street calmed down from the euphoric rally that greeted investors at the start of the trading week. Just as the spectacular one-day rallies of the 1930s (see yesterday's report, "Depression no more?") were followed by more sober ...

Rescue package YES, economy NO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
Following last Monday's preview of a financial market pandemonium, there was little doubt in anyone's mind that the US Senate will pass the Treasury's US$700 billion rescue package. The Senate voted 74 to 25 in favour of the Emergency Economic Stabilization ...

Investment titans now governed by Fed

COMPANY RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
Two of the world's investment banking giants Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have morphed into bank holding companies - a historic move to avert a disastrous turn similar to Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. Goldman Sachs announced in a statement yesterday ...

Pereira bullish on Indian equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... the correction has created an opportunity for investors over the long term." Pereira said rising Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and growing private equity and infrastructure investment had compensated for a drop in the number of Indian initial price ...

Investors look east, Australia falls behind

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... said. Despite Australia faring well on the economic front, the country received a pounding in the foreign direct investment (FDI) sector as investors move to embrace emerging markets as the next investment hot spots. The A.T. Kearny FDI confidence index ...

China's growth unsustainable: Australian Economic Review

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
... poorest country in the world, China is currently the world's third largest capital exporting country, and also the third largest FDI recipient. Professor Yu said, "In order to correct China's internal and external imbalances, structural adjustments - ...