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BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... credit default swaps of sovereign debt." Ahhh yes, specyulators -- the fall guys for Greece's crisis. And Portugal's...and Spain's...and... But it won't have any teeth unless regulators in the rest of the G-20 nations (at least) institute the same. Else ...

Change of heart

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... the Eurozone as an integrated economic area have emerged as a result of ballooning budget deficits in Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Italy, among others. And this is beginning to have a negative impact on overall Eurozone economic growth as reflected ...

Love thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... European nations are back-pedalling. Flash estimates show Italian real GDP contracted by 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter and Spain by 0.1 per cent. France grew by 0.6 per cent, helping overall Eurozone GDP growth managed a positive 0.1 per cent uptick ...

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... has a budget deficit of 13 per cent of GDP, Ireland is expected to produce a 2009 budget deficit of 13.6 per cent of GDP, Spain 11.8 per cent and Portugal 8.1 per cent. It was not supposed to be this way. Why wasn't profligate government spending stopped ...

Australia better than triple A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... Portugal at 108 per cent (a,-177bil) of GDP, Ireland at 68 per cent (a,-123bil), Greece at 87 per cent (a,-208bil) of GDP and Spain at 91 per cent (a,-950bil). That's just the PIGS. Add Italy at 23 per cent (a,-347bn) and Eastern Europe's and the total ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... sustainability of the global economic recovery. Concerns have grown that some European countries -- Greece, Portugal and Spain -- may not be able to handle their mounting levels of debt. Stocks have also been hurt by China's plans to contain economic ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... raise the retirement age. All in the name of deficit reduction. What is happening in Greece and Portugal and Ireland and Spain serves a warning to other highly indebted countries. This is where the classic phrase, "caught between a rock and hard place" ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... unemployment rate and the pace of recovery in the US. "The overnight (US) jobless claims disappointed, and Greece, Portugal and Spain all look like they could be in trouble. So this is quite serious. "It tells the market that not only are we (not) out ...

Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... America's jobs market may be worsening. Europe had its own bad day as renewed fears about the PIGS - Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain - sent the benchmark Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index down 2.7 per cent. A case of swine flu perhaps? Market sentiment started ...

Positive contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... 'jitters of January' appears to have suddenly went puff. China? Greece and the rest of the PIGS - Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain? Budget deficits? Joblessness? All because of 1 February 2010's wonderful set of purchasing managers index (PMI), showing ...