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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... nations. Greece faces a tough week as European Union (EU) and IMF experts resume an audit of progress on cutting the public deficit and reforming the economy. The EU and IMF will decide on the basis of the audit whether to release the next slice of rescue ...

Twisting the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... regain my faith. Consider this. The Fed's latest foray into stimulation offers something for investors, inflation watchers, deficit worry-warts and credit-ratings agencies. It addresses the problem of lowering the cost of capital for businesses and homeowners ...

Glimmer of hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... dime would not be forthcoming until next month... and only if the Papandreou government proves that it it's meeting its deficit reduction targets. Noticed anything? Yes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Yup, the same uncertainty that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... billion euros of bailout cash for Greece, which it cannot tap until it has persuaded auditors it is on track to cut its deficit. Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos will hold talks with key European and international lenders on Monday to convince ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... eight-billion-euro ($A10.8 billion) bailout loan for Greece until they had firmer evidence of Athens's willingness to cut its deficit. In another sign of friction, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who was also attending the meeting, disagreed ...

Damned to default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... How? That's why last week's breaking news from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that, "Greece is likely to miss its budget-deficit targets this year," is hardly surprising. According to the WSJ, the country's budget deficit will exceed 8.5% of GDP this ...

Not looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
Financial market waters are getting more treacherous by the day. The signs are all around us - macro-economic fundamentals are deteriorating, systemic risk is growing and technical indicators of risk assets are breaking down. I'd like to able to conjure ...

Moody's does an S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... Moody's concern over "several factors" that could prevent the Japanese economy from growing fast enough to reduce its budget deficit is not consistent with recent economic statistics showing that Japan has already started to recover from the devastation ...

UK pension liabilities bigger than the bank

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... capitalisation. For UK domestic banks the recent market declines have added an estimated 2.2% to the ratio of pension deficit to market capitalisation, of which Barclays had the highest at 13%, the report said. The study found the increase in relative ...

Lost GPS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
And so here we are ladies and gents. Very much unsure of where financial markets are gonna go. In times like these, it becomes so easy to get swept up by the mood of the mob. Someone shouts "sell" and everybody rush to the exits - never mind why, we ...