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More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... were flashing red again with geo-political risk on reports that Lebanon fired at Israeli warplanes. So what if two Middle Eastern countries blow each other to smithereens? Just like the European debt crisis is extrapolated to a double dip in the global ...

Change of heart

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... were losing their attraction for the US dollar and diversifying their currency reserves. China, Russia, Asian and Middle Eastern central banks were falling in love with the yen and the euro - their value getting an extra kick from speculators piling ...

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... of 14,164.53 points on 9 October 2007. This time it was different. Surplus savings from Asian and oil-producing Middle Eastern countries are supporting keeping interest rates down and low for spendthrift Americans. But as we now learned, this all ended ...

Too big to fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... US$455,000,000,000. America would need a heck lot of financing to stay afloat and the rest of the world (hello China! Asian and Middle Eastern countries...hello) would need to be willing to send their surpluses America's way. While these surplus countries ...

Macquarie enters China JV

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... trust company joint venture in mainland China - the second JV in less than a week following its recent deal with Middle Eastern investment bank, Gulf Finance House. The Chinese JV, which will be called Sino-Australian International Trust Company, will ...

Macquarie eyes Middle East with JV

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
Macquarie is looking to deepen its Middle Eastern footprint by entering a joint venture with Gulf Finance House, an investment bank led by former NAB chief, Ahmed Fahour. Gulf Finance House announced two days ago that it intended to establish a joint ...

SWFs back alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... commodities, private equity, real estate," said Patricia Pascuzzo, Mercer's principal, sovereign funds global. Middle Eastern SWFs in particular have been actively investing in private equity and the hedge fund sectors for many years. Despite the inherent ...

Northern Trust expands reporting tools

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
... action event and displays the status of the entire class action court settlement for its European, Asia Pacific, Middle Eastern and African clients governance reporting requirements. In addition, Northern Trust has created a suite of new reports to collate ...

ING IM target resource rich states

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... economies will continue to grow and Australia's commodities growth will be sustained by that." He said European and Middle Eastern economies would remain strong despite an impending US economic slowdown. "The Middle East and Eastern Europe have become ...

Our rates a global sideshow

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
... the Euro will begin to rival the USD for global clout. Another major trend is "the burgeoning role of oil-rich Middle Eastern countries as suppliers of capital to the world, along with the rise of new financial hubs in the Middle East to complement the ...