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Cheque's not yet in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... despite more bad news last night - Moody's downgraded the PITS (Portugal, ITaly and Spain) along with Slovakia, Slovenia and Malta and cut the credit outlook for Britain, France and Austria to negative. What it is with these credit rating agencies and ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... obviously given the market the impetus to go downwards," Ms Chan said. Moody's also cut debt ratings for Slovenia, Slovakia and Malta, and placed negative outlooks on France, the UK and Austria. Moody's said the nine nations were more susceptible to ...

The times, they're not a -changin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... credit grades of Italy (now BBB+), Spain (A), Portugal (BB) and Cyprus (BB+). No surprises here and the one-step downgrade of Malta (to A), Slovakia (A) and Slovenia (A+) doesn't really matter that much. The chop that matters is the one given to France ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... and a correction to Bloomberg's piece, Slovakia is not "the euro area's second poorest member," its economy is bigger than Malta, Estonia, Cyprus and Slovenia -- that makes it the fifth, doesn't it? According to 2009 World Bank data, Slovakia's economy ...

The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... highlights the fragility of the country's institutions, which underpins Greece's comparatively low sovereign rating, with Malta the lowest among euro area sovereigns. Moreover, the global financial and economic crisis is eroding the country's ...

Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... States recording a worsening in their government balance relative to GDP in 2009 compared with 2008, and two (Estonia and Malta) recording an improvement." If you're scared about contagion to the rest of the Eurozone now, you should have been spooked ...

FTSE 'watches' Greece and South Korea

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... developed market but had been placed on the watch list because some aspects of the FTSE criteria had not been met. Kazakhstan, Malta and Ukraine are to all be considered for inclusion into the firm's Frontier status, while Argentina and Colombia could ...

HSBC names new head in personal fin services

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
... in Australia. He was previously responsible for HSBC's retail bank. Heunis replaces Alan Richards, who has been posted to Malta as chief executive officer of HSBC Malta, the country's largest listed entity. "Personal Financial Services in Australia focuses ...

Dollar looks set for more solid gains

... yields are 2.6%, Latvia's is 3%, Malaysia at 4.5%, Singapore at 0.6%, South Korea at 3.75%, Taiwan at 1.4%, Thailand's 1.3%, Malta at 3%, Argentina at 1.3%, Chile at 2.8%, Mexico at 4.5%, Peru at 2.8% or Venzuela at 1.6%. "The stunningly high real and ...
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