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The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... by almost 36 per cent as the liquidity crisis that was 'made in America' makes its presence felt in every corner of the globe. Continued lowering in Libor reset rates are providing hopeful indications that the credit squeeze is beginning to loosen. Even ...

No instant gratification

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... conversations with friends and strangers - near or afar - are started, family pictures are sent thousand of miles across the globe. So it is with the current financial crisis. Investors expect that with one pen stroke signing the US$700 billion rescue ...

Sober and sombre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... constructed homes from A$7,000 to A$21,000 for a year. While it is comforting to know that national governments across the globe are doing everything in their power to contain the panic in the financial markets, measures announced and implemented will ...

The end is nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... were tried over the past few weeks. All failed to ease the extreme pessimism that has gripped financial markets across the globe. More measures are coming. The G7 met over the weekend and came out with five strategies to unfreeze the credit markets. ...

Funny Mae, Froggy Mac

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
... financial system that a failure of either of them would cause great turmoil in our financial markets here at home and around the globe. This turmoil would directly and negatively impact household wealth: from family budgets, to home values, to savings ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... and a handful of blue chips sank to multi-year lows, after US markets spiralled downwards and selling spread across the globe. The NZSX-50 benchmark index closed down 2.2 per cent, or 68.97 points, at 3,094.4.

Cracks appearing in Europe

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
... follow the US and Spain into recession. They said rising energy and food prices have been pushing up inflation around the globe and divergent growth prospects in the emerging markets compared to in the developed West is now being reflected in other inflation ...

The carbon cost of investing

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... Trucost have teamed up to provide a detailed analysis of the carbon performance of portfolios to fund managers around the globe. As a result, the venture will see more asset managers have direct access to Trucost data while analysing the carbon impacts ...

Eagle IT opens Sydney office

... US. Through its new Sydney office, the group hopes to expand its business in the Asia Pacific region. "This area of the globe has shown an increased interest in our suite of solutions. Establishing a local team in Sydney has been a long-term plan for ...

RREEF offloads half stake in DEXUS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... existed between the two organisations. "DEXUS remains a key client of both Deutsche Bank in Australia and RREEF across the globe. [This] is reflected by existing and new investment management agreements with DEXUS for the purposes of the acquisition ...