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Wall Street v Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... also China - and it's fine tuning (yes, fine-tuning, not tightening) and there are the PIGIS' (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain) debt problem for the Eurozone. And news out overnight showed that the UK unconvincingly stepped out of recession after ...

Top 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... Chartered; Switzerland -- Credit Suisse, UBS; France -- BNP Paribas, SociA(C)tA(C) GA(C)nA(C)rale; Spain - BBVA, Santander; Italy -- Banca Intesa, UniCredit; Germany -- Deutsche Bank; Netherlands - ING. Japan: Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho, Nomura, Sumitomo ...

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... unnoticed - is that the G's have again expanded. It began as the G-6 in 1975 - comprised of the US, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and the UK. It became the G-7 in 1976 when Canada joined. Seven became G-8 after Russia's inclusion in 1998. Twenty heads ...

U V W X Y Z

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... and most emerging markets (China, India, Brazil, parts of Asia and Latin America. Other advanced economies (US, UK, Spain, Italy and other euro area countries) and emerging European countries would not see the end of recession before 2009 is over. Q ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... sentiment. Bloomberg's Professional Confidence Survey show investors anticipate equities to rise in seven countries -- Brazil, Italy, UK, France, Mexico, Japan, Switzerland - in the next six months. Note that optimism is infectious and therefore, it ...

A lose-lose proposition

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... flat overnight. And so it should there was really not much news out for it to react to one or another. The G8 meeting in Italy produced nothing new. Their communique announced more of the same. And this is that, 'significant risks remain to economic ...

State Street wins Italian pension client

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... provides risk management, manager selection and asset liability modelling to pension funds and institutional investors in Italy. State Street's Milan based office will provide the firm with custody services and State Street's Amsterdam office will provide ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... Greece 505 47 135 90.1 A- 13. Sweden 664 73 129 36.5 AAA 14. Finland 329 62 116 33.0 AAA 15. Norway 552 118 114 52.0 AAA 16. Italy 2,359 41 98 103.7 A+ 17. United States 13,627 44 95 60.7 AAA 18. Australia 764 36 71 15.4 AAA 19. Japan 2,344 18 48 170.4 ...

Liongate snags $1 billion in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... companies. Last month alone, the fund manager received mandates from pension funds in Germany. Pension plans in the UK, Italy, Scandinavia, Finland, the US and several insurance companies in Japan have also put their money in Liongate's hands in the ...

IG Markets offers more transparency

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... it in Australia first before the UK," said Szabo. IG Markets was established in the UK but has operations in Australia, Italy and Germany. Among the benefits of DMA trading of CFDs are: allowing CFD clients to compare buying and selling interest by seeing ...