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No follow through

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... England (BOE) governor Mark Carney didn't follow through on the remarks he made at the European Central Bank Forum in Portugal that, "Some removal of monetary stimulus is likely to become necessary if the trade-off facing the MPC continues to lessen..." ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... policy normalisation in the UK especially after Governor Mark Carney's remarks at the European Central Bank Forum in Portugal. The one where Carney declared that, "Some removal of monetary stimulus is likely to become necessary if the trade-off facing ...

ECB nips the bud of rate hike speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... bond yields remains acceptable, a further increase would be problematic, particularly in places like Italy, Spain and Portugal, where debt payments are a major cost item and rising yields would curb spending and thwart growth." Not only this, while there's ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... darlings" while those that score poorly are "demographic disasters". Economies in this second group include Japan, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Germany. A third group - "demographic deviants" - have favourable population pyramids but relatively weak institutions. ...

Australian expats pension protected

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the USA.

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... "Grexodus" and "Graccident" vapourised. And then, there was contagion. Spain's equity market rallied by 3.9%, Italy's by 3.5%, Portugal's by 2.2%, Ireland's by 1.0% and their bond yields and their respective 10-year bond yields dropped (except for Ireland ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
When the global financial crisis broke, people dubbed them the PIIGS. Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain were the ugly ducklings of Europe. They had inefficient economies, had been relying on EU funding and were heavily indebted. Today, most ...

The bad and the bad and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... in the minds of some finance scribblers. Greek 10-year bond yields jumped by 160 basis points to 12.72% last week but Portugal's ones - the closest follower - rose by only 40bps and to just 2.0% at that. Italian bond yields skipped by 23bps from a week ...

Breathing space or gasping room?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... 2013 bailout conditions, Tsipras, in the other hand, promised the Greeks no more austerity. Unlike the 2013 episode, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy's bond yields no longer follow the ups and downs of that of Greece's. The yield on Portugal's 10-year ...

Now where have I heard that before?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... overvaluation and increased volatility and Putin. July 31 - S&P 500 down by 2.0% because of Argentina's debt default, Portugal's Banco Espiritu Santo, heightened geopolitical risks, Fed rate hike speculation, China slowing, Greenspan warning of "a significant ...