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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... insurance, an indicator of the pace of layoffs, fell by 6,000 to 361,000 in the week to August 4. Meanwhile, the trade deficit for June fell for the third straight month as exports continued to climb while imports decreased. LONDON - European equities ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... It cut the outlook on Greece's debt to negative from stable due to the credit rater's reservation that it will meet its deficit savings' target. Rosengren's overnight blahs also took space away from reports that Italy's economy contracted for the fourth ...

Keynes & Riccardo on display

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
... overall demand would be the same. David Riccardo argued back in the 1820's that given increased government spending (read deficit), rationale consumers would merely save the extra money to compensate for what they expect to be increased taxes in the ...

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Noi! Noi! Noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
... losing their influence over currencies of nations that depend on raw materials exports as traders seek havens from the deficit and debt turmoil roiling the European Union, U.S. and Japan. As the Standard & Poor's GSCI Total Return index of 24 commodities ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... growing fears Spain will need a full bailout. Japanese shares were hurt by news that the country had posted a record trade deficit in the first six months of the year as energy costs soared and exports to key markets tumbled while the strong yen also ...

Lucky in so many ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... "The share of (Australian banks) offshore funding has fallen, and its maturity has been lengthened." "The current account deficit has, in other words, been easily 'funded' without the assistance of banks borrowing abroad - in fact, while they have been ...

Uncertainly good or bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... sheet. Double yippee! Wait there's more. They gave Madrid an extra year to - 2014 instead of 2013 - to reduce its budget deficit to 2.8% of GDP. According to reports, this would allow Spain to run a deficit of as much as 6.3% of GDP this year without ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... He said while the high bond yields were a concern, that was countered by moves to give Spain an extra year to get its deficit under control which was a positive. Trading this week would be influenced by the release of a raft of Chinese data, including ...

It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... government revenues also makes it feasible for the Aquino administration to make good on its target of reducing the budget deficit from 3.9% (when it assumed office in June 2010) to 2.6% this year and 2.0% in 2013 -- and these, without subjecting the ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
Stop right there. If you believe that last night's reversal of fortune on Wall Street was really, truly because of "improved data on the US housing market" as the Australian Financial Review puts it or "as Home Data Tempers Economic Concern," as per ...