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Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... Month Leading Indicators Index Shows U.S. Economy to Keep Growing Euro-Area Manufacturing Grows as Risk of Recession Eases Spanish Unemployment Lowest Since 2011 as Economy Grows China Factory Gauge Rises as Workers Weather Slowdown You got it! The global ...

QIC takes stake in East West Link PPP

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... led by Capella Capital won the bid. Other members of the consortium included British infrastructure investor John Laing, Spanish infrastructure developer Acciona, French construction company Bouygue, and Lend Lease. EWL will operate under a '30-year ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... after announcing the appointment of a new chief executive, while Santander shares slumped slightly in Madrid after the Spanish bank said its chairman, aged 79, had died. Asian stock markets mostly closed lower on Wednesday following a fall on Wall Street ...

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... Germany's economy in the second quarter suggests further weakness ahead - employment being a lagging indicator. Then there's Spanish consumer price inflation which fell by 0.5% in the year to August - the biggest drop since October 2009 and the second ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... that the US of A and the European Union have expanded the sanctions they've imposed on Russia reminded me of that ancient Spanish torture weapon - the garrotte. Wikipedia describes the garrotte as "a practice of strangulation by which the condemned was ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... developments." Recent indicators suggest that the transmission mechanism might be beginning to transmit. For instance, Spanish real GDP growth accelerated to 0.4% in the March quarter - the fastest pace in 6 years -- from 0.2% in the previous three-month ...

This means war (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... both exports and imports growing at their fastest pace in nearly two years in January; better-than-expected growth in Spanish retail sales; Indian inflation easing for the third straight month in February and a surprise uptick in January industrial production. ...

Gina gets richer but falls down list

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... billion. Gates displaced Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim Helu, who placed second at $A81 billion. Next was Spanish clothing giant founder Amancio Ortega, owner of Zara, with $72 billion, and then there's high-profile investor Warren Buffett. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... cent to 4,299.89 points. Madrid's main stocks index advanced by 1.32 per cent and Milan by 0.96 per cent. The yield on Spanish 10-year bonds fell below 4.0 per cent for the second time this year, to a low point on the day of 3.978 per cent from 4.063 ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... balding Ben, that is) to remind you.A There was the China slowdown, eurozone crisis - courtesy of Cyprexit, Italian and Spanish political uncertainty (if I remember right, Greece was there too) - the Boston Marathon bombings and who could forget Duke ...