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Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... Wall Street could have easily taken as excuses to continue meandering south. There was Japan adding its voice to China and Russia's vocal deliberations to diversify away from the US dollar. There were also US Treasury figures that showed the shortfall ...

A lose-lose proposition

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... did have a purpose after all? It reinforced the notion that the leaders of the biggest seven countries in the world (and Russia) continue to work together to dig us out of the GFC. But back to China. Its leaders are no fools -- they know that China currently ...

No protection in protectionism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... tested. Some are mere noise - to keep investors' heart beating - but some have more significant intermediate repercussions. Russia's call for a new reserve currency to replace the US dollar during the meeting of the BRICs earlier this week we'll put ...

Threat of Lehmannisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... spenders...US and UK raise your hands. Lehmannisation of the US. Bloomberg reported that big US bond holders - China, Japan, Russia and Brazil) - are looking into shifting their reserves from US Treasuries into multicurrency bonds in order to hedge against ...

Risk of indigestion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... into a 200 per cent plus increase per annum. And this is just the developed markets' high 20's gain. Equity markets in Russia, Hong Kong and India soared in the high 30's. Russian shares spiked by 39.6 per cent, HK by 37.5 per cent and India by 35.1 ...

Aviva snaps up Russian pension

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... $165,000 in gross assets. Aviva becomes one of the leading foreign owned providers of non-state pension fund products in Russia as a result of the deal, with roughly a 10 per cent share of the assets under management in the country's corporate pensions ...

BRIC to BIC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
Investors have gone cold on Russia, following concerns over its fragile economy and negative perceptions around governance and accountability. A survey of private equity firms conducted by the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) has ...

We are the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... with America - in Afghanistan, in Iraq and in its plan for spending its way out of the global financial crisis - while Russia, Spain, France and Germany opposed. Certainly the US wants the UK onside when the G20 gabfest convenes in a fortnight to hatch ...

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... economy slowed but avoided a recession when the Asian financial crisis of 1998 spread to the economies of Latin America and Russia. The Australian economy slowed but avoided a recession when the dotcom bubble burst, when September 11 threatened borders ...

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... Scrooge, the global economy also turns to Scrooge. News overnight shows that manufacturing in the US, the Eurozone, China, Russia and South Africa are shrinking. More will follow. Ghost of Christmas Past. Low interest rates and lax lending standards ...