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Wall Street v Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... China - and it's fine tuning (yes, fine-tuning, not tightening) and there are the PIGIS' (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain) debt problem for the Eurozone. And news out overnight showed that the UK unconvincingly stepped out of recession after ...

Damned either way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... shares of energy and materials companies. The back-and-forth trading came as investors grew cautious about government debt in Spain, Greece and other countries. Investors have been looking for any signs that debt problems could trip up a global economic ...

Top 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... of Scotland, Standard Chartered; Switzerland -- Credit Suisse, UBS; France -- BNP Paribas, SociA(C)tA(C) GA(C)nA(C)rale; Spain - BBVA, Santander; Italy -- Banca Intesa, UniCredit; Germany -- Deutsche Bank; Netherlands - ING. Japan: Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... closed at 5,296.38, up 19.88 points, or 0.38 per cent, with investors excited about the planned merger of British Airways and Spain's airline, Iberia. FRANKFURT - The DAX 30 rose 22.87 points, or 0.40 per cent, to 5,686.83 points. PARIS - The CAC 40 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... confidence index due on Friday, although London managed a small gain on prospects for a merger of British Airways and Iberia of Spain. The FTSE 100 index rose 9.75 points, or 0.19 per cent, to finish at 5,276.50 points. BA shares jumped 7.5 per cent ...

U V W X Y Z

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... Japan) and most emerging markets (China, India, Brazil, parts of Asia and Latin America. Other advanced economies (US, UK, Spain, Italy and other euro area countries) and emerging European countries would not see the end of recession before 2009 is over. ...

Gen-Y in a bottle

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... online video per week versus 2.5 hours a year ago." For the skeptics, Scopelliti points out the experience of a bank in Spain. "Bank Inter is the sixth largest bank in Spain. In 2007, it deployed a multi-channel strategy that traverses commencing an ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... 485 45 190 64.2 A+ 9. France 5,001 78 168 67.0 AAA 10. Denmark 589 107 159 21.8 AAA 11. Germany 5,250 63 138 62.6 AAA 11. Spain 2,313 57 138 37.5 AA+ 12. Greece 505 47 135 90.1 A- 13. Sweden 664 73 129 36.5 AAA 14. Finland 329 62 116 33.0 AAA 15. Norway ...

Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... swine flue related deaths in Mexico and some 40-odd confirmed cases in the US, 6 in Canada, a few in New Zealand and in Spain could morphed into warnings of global catastrophe. The World Health Organisation has raised the alert level from 3 to 4 - the ...