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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... analysts. Dealers said the prospects of European airlines getting back to normal after unprecedented disruption caused by the Iceland volcano eruption remained very uncertain but there appeared at least to have been more flights on Tuesday. In London ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
... investment bank Goldman Sachs. Dealers said an apparent easing in the European flight ban due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland gave the airlines and associated companies a bit of a breather and lightened the tone overall after heavy early losses. ...

Australians as Asians

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
... as a counterweight to the downward pull of the advanced economies, a tiny country like Australia could have melted ala Iceland. And guess what? Wall Street started the first day of December with a rally. Need I tell you why? In one word - China. The ...

The shrinking big dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... US budget deficit forecast to 13.5 per cent of GDP this year - second only to Britain's 14.4 per cent and higher than Iceland and Ireland's 13.0 per cent - the big dollar will continue to shrink. If the fall becomes disorderly...look out below! There ...

GS trounces GM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... happened is what happened. The financial system survived Bear Sterns, Lehman, Fannie and Freddie, Northern Rock, RBS, Iceland, et al during the darkest economic moment since the Great Depression. The financial system is certainly better positioned now ...

October mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... emerging countries. However, while the IMF announced that it would somewhat relax its fiscal test, this remains to be seen. Iceland, for one, has been forced to raise interest rates to obtain IMF money. Financial market will continue. And once more ...

I'll have what she's having

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... pain in another. Who would think that the collapse of one sector of the US economy - the subprime market - could melt Iceland? With more than US$10 trillion in national debt and counting, US authorities are undoubtedly worried about the future when time ...

Pension deficits halts M&A activity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... deficits was one of the reasons behind UK based Woolworths Group decision to drop a takeover advance from frozen food chain, Iceland Foods. An international news service found the Iceland Foods requirement that Woolworths Group keep all its pension liabilities ...

Billionaire bull run

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2007

Pension age too low: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... 65." While the move may seem drastic, it's already happening in other countries like the US, the UK, Germany, Denmark, Iceland and Norway, while Singapore is also likely to head the same way. Beyer acknowledged the shift could have political challenges. ...
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