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Looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... in May when it warned of Portugal's - a week after Standard & Poor's downgraded Greece to junk and lowered Portugal and Spain's credit ratings. It did so in June, when it rated Greece's bonds as junk - one month after Standard & Poor's did. It did so ...

Paul does it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
... "both on an aggregated and on a bank-by-bank basis, on July 23." Loss of around 17 per cent on Greece and 3 per cent for Spain? Just that? Bring me that guy who told me that my Greek bonds are now worthless. Before you jump to any conclusion, this is ...

Bored with half-empty glasses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... looking so. European equity markets produced a sharp last night. The benchmark Stoxx 600 index increased by 2.6 per cent but Spain's IBEX 35 index climbed even more - up 3.6 per cent - following news that it was able to sell six billion euros worth of ...

Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... sovereign debt. Greece can't pay so there must be others? Searching... searching. Yes there are! Markets found Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, the UK and even the biggest one of all, the US. They've all hocked their economies to their eyeballs... ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... LONDON - Stock markets in Europe suffered sharp losses on Thursday as ominous US economic data and renewed jitters over Spain's finances put investors in a selling mood. Stock market sentiment was gloomy, and indications from the European Central Bank ...

Down on old news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
What really was Moody's intention in announcing that it may downgrade Spain's credit rating last night? Is it Moody's way of proving that it still matters? That it could still move markets? According to Bloomberg, "US stocks fell, extending the first ...

EOFYS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... repay about 442 billion this by 1 July. Yeah, this isn't good news given that the problem countries of Greece, Portugal and Spain have been the most reliant on this programme. The expiry would exposed how ECB-funding dependent they are. Still, the new ...

To spend or not to spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... the 1930s. But most, if not all, of Europe may not be amenable given the market's punishment of Greece. Already, Greece, Spain and Portugal - among others - have embarked on deep fiscal austerity measures. China, Japan and Canada are also in this camp. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... share prices lurched lower as the Greek debt crisis unfolded and tainted many of its weaker eurozone peers, chief among them Spain. The Spanish bond issue on Thursday showed that Madrid could still raise money on the capital markets, albeit at a higher ...