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The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... that it expects to complete its review of Greece's A3 sovereign bond rating shortly after the details of the euro area/IMF programme are unveiled. Moody's has consistently maintained that Greece's short-term liquidity and restructuring risks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... Athens would survive a vote of confidence and then pass the latest austerity package needed to get the next tranche of EU-IMF funding and pave the way for a new rescue deal. In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index of top shares closed up 16.13 points ...

Rejoice for May has gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... by the end of June and has ruled out a "total restructuring" of its debt. According to the Financial Times, the EU and the IMF would lend a,-30 bil to Greece so it can stay afloat through to next year with the rest of its funding needs covered mostly ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... sentiment was weaker after negative comments about the Greek debt situation over the weekend, he said. The EU would follow the IMF in blocking the June transfer of more Greek aid, unless Athens does more to fix its public finances, economic affairs commissioner ...

Signature scam adviser banned for life: ASIC

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... also a director of Stripe Capital, a corporate authorised representative of ASANDAS until 2009, ASIC said. Litigation funder IMF Australia is backing a Supreme Court bid by Perth-based law firm Solomon Brothers on behalf of the alleged victim, Edwin ...

Australian market to shrug off Greek woes

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... of medium term finance over the next year. If it receives help from Europe's leaders then the overall exposure of the EU, IMF and ECB to the Greek government could reach a,-200 billion by the end of 2012. "Equity markets are likely to react negatively ...

Can't hear you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... per share from US$106. Despite Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker revealing that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may not release its portion of a 12 billion-euro (US$17 billion) aid payment to Greece next month. Bloomberg explains Wall ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... Manhattan Hotel and get away with it. The allegations alone cost him the Managing Director job at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a few days in the slammer. He's recently bought his temporary freedom with a US$1 million bail plus a US$5 million ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... didn't seem to support the case for an imminent cash rate rise. Overnight (AEST), European finance ministers backed an EU-IMF bailout of Portugal worth 78 billion euros ($A104.45 billion). With Greece's debt woes still unresolved, Ms Ong said traders ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... longer see it that way in May. It's the same with the European sovereign debt crisis. European finance chiefs backed an EU/IMF bailout worth 78 billion euros for Portugal. This is good news. But financial markets don't want to hear any of this - oh ...