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Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... but at 11.7% remains close to all-time highs... and this hides depression-like 20%-plus rates of joblessness in member nations like Spain (25.9% overall with youth unemployment at 53.9%) and Greece (26.5% overall with youth unemployment at 56.9%). This ...

Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... wiggle, wiggle, wiggle yeah..." I can just imagine the central bank heads (and government authorities) of member euro nations humming, "he's sexy and he knows it". Super Mario's speech said it all. Help is on its way! His speech laid the final groundwork ...

Government takes aim at corporation tax

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... doorstep of Europe, Southeast Asia and China respectively - advantages which Australia does not have. However, developed nations that, like Australia, rely a great deal on exportation generally have higher rates. Germany's, for example, is around the ...

NZ Super Fund invests in N American energy

PAUL MCBETH, AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... alternative energy investments, such as its stakes in US wind turbine maker Ogin. Mr Whineray said KKR is a signatory to United Nations-backed principles for responsible investment, and that the mandate gives the fund the ability to manage and measure ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... commodities, lower their disposable incomes and by extension, negatively impact economic growth. If this happens, other nations - including emerging markets - will be caught in the "friendly fire" and would blame not only Russia but the US and Europe ...

Pickle wrapped in a bind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... it begins to look like a farce. The power to impose international sanctions and/or military action lies with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). However, according to Wikipedia, "Under Article 27 of the UN Charter, Security Council decisions ...

You go NZ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... and Japanese consumption tax threat. Yes Virginia, the RBNZ exited the club - the record low interest rates developed nations' club - this morning with its decision to raise the country's official cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.75%. This, according ...

Asia Funds Passport on shaky ground

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... fund manages to offer products to investors across the region. Stockell said while the principle makes sense, many Asian nations already have trade agreements in place with one another and see the European UCITS model as the best means of exporting their ...

Vale Gwen Fletcher

JULIE BENNETT  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... career. She worked for the United States Army in Sydney during World War II and, once the war was over, for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). She then went on to work for Liberal Federal Member of Parliament, John Howse ...

China heading for debt disaster, sure sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... worry about them. Imagine what would happen if China suffered a debt disaster...it would have to call on its debt to these nations (sell US Treasuries and euro bonds). China holds around US$1.1 trillion of US Treasuries and guesstimated to be holding ...