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Flip flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... country will be ejected 23.2% The Eurozone will shrink to a core of creditor nations (Germany, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland) 34.2% Germany will leave the Eurozone 4.9% Other ` 2.4% Mercer Hammond captured the overriding mood that has prevailed ...

Australia leads in global median wealth

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... include: Australia (US$194,000) again tops the table by a considerable margin in terms of median wealth, with Japan, Italy, Belgium, and the UK in the band from US$110,000 to 140,000. Exchange rate changes have reduced Australia's average wealth (US$ ...

Australian super funds, world's third best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... to bonds and cash. Behind Australia's 50% equities weighting are the US with 48%, Finland with 41%, Chile with 40% and Belgium with 35%. Hong Kong pension assets are 55% weighted to equities but Hong Kong is not in the OECD. Australia is also a leader ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... of vino rosso by the Fontana di Trevi. We'll know more about the European Plan when leaders meet later in the week in Belgium. In the meantime, expect more trades ups and downs in the financial markets as speculation once again dictates the markets' ...

Greece chooses pain to pain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... to the European crisis for this one has again been averted. The same goes for the European summit (yes, another one) in Belgium on the 28th of this one. Ahh... the more things change, the more they stay the same. And what now of QE expectations? Or ECB ...

Thrilla in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... Growth will be highest in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland and lowest in Greece and in Portugal." The "unlucky niners" are Belgium, Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Hungary. But for all it's worth, the take-away here ...

Get up and go on board

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
... cowardly captain, Schettino, and are getting on board. Take for instance, the successful bond and bill auctions of France, Belgium, Italy, Spain and the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) right straight after S&P lopped their credit ratings. To ...

PIGS!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... Greece is already junked. S&P warned that of the 15 Eurozone members, six countries - Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Finland - face a one-notch downgrade while the remaining nine are staring at a two-step markdown. And for ...

Worry me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... dismissed Italian newspaper, La Stampa's report that the IMF is readying a a,-600 bil bailout for Italy. Standard & Poor's cut Belgium's credit rating one-step lower to AA. And across the pond, US new home sales increased by 1.3% to an annualised rate ...

Those tight Aussies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
... up from the negative rates experienced in the four years from 2002 to 2005. Only the savings ratio of Ireland (14.4%), Belgium (11.0%) and Germany (10.9%) are expected to be higher next year. I wonder, wonder why? While Belgium and Germany have historically ...