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Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... economy shrunk by 1.4 per cent in the December quarter while Portugal's contracted by 0.3 per cent in the same period and Spain's inched up by a small 0.2 per cent - but wait till the tax increases and reduce government spending take their toll this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... Specialty Fashion Group Ltd, Leighton Holdings Ltd, Salmat Ltd, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Ltd, and Grange Resources Ltd. In Spain, Telstra chief executive David Thodey addresses the Mobile World Congress. On Friday, the Australian share market was moderately ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... almost universal improvement in the latest purchasing managers indices in China, India, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil, Czech Republic, Turkey... shall I go on? Markit Economics latest report shows that they're all above ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... budget tightening in the United States, Japan, Brazil and Europe. While it lauded moves by Germany, France, Britain and Spain towards deficit reduction, it also warned that, "In the euro area, a more comprehensive approach to crisis management is needed ...

Danger everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... Here's Bloomberg: "Credit-default swaps insuring Italian government bonds rose 22.5 basis points to 268.4, contracts on Spain increased 12.8 basis points to 364 and Portugal climbed 4.5 basis points to 542.9, all record highs, according to CMA, a data ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... affecting local stocks. "Once the Ireland situation was seemingly sorted out, attention immediately turned to Portugal and Spain," Mr Herring said. "I'd expect this might go on for a little while as the hedge funds go around looking for weakness between ...

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
he "Rape of Europa" continues. Investors are circling around like vultures around Portugal and Spain perhaps until the whole of Europe burns. Oh yes, Virginia, there's a niggling feeling that ultimately Europa will be raped and this would cause untold ...

Confidence will return to Ireland: Govt

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... from the IMF and EU, as authorities look to prevent the contagion of the crisis into other European economies, most notably Spain.

Turkeys, PIGS and Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... Ireland into ICU at a cost of a,-85 billion (US$115 billion), bond vigilantes have trained their crosshairs on Portugal and Spain. Present whispers are that while there will still be money to fund Portugal's trip to the ICU if it gets bloodied, Spain ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... like they did Greece. But then... they'll start searching for whos' next. They're scouting around as we speak. Portugal? Spain? Italy? But "If anything can go wrong..." All these would seem mundane if the King of the Jungle that is the US is doing just ...