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Interest rates to tumble below 2.5%: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... not many developed markets have the room to cut interest rates that Australia has, and with some of the risk from the eurozone being taken off the table, even with some softening, we should avoid the worst of the global risks." BlackRock's head of Asian ...

Sweeet!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... won't allow a Grexit. It won't contemplate bankruptcy. To do so would be asking for an even greater headache for the eurozone. As 'The Economist' eloquently puts it, "The reduction in interest rates [for Greece] means that Italy and Spain are lending ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... Tuesday as investors cautiously welcomed a bailout deal for Greece that eased fears over a bankruptcy for the indebted eurozone country. London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies rose 0.22 per cent to close at 5799.71 points, Frankfurt's DAX 30 climbed ...

Double-digit Asian equity returns in 2013: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... loosening of monetary policy and an uptick in industrial production. Uncertainty surrounding the Chinese economy, the eurozone crisis and the US debt mountain has seen investors shy away from all risk assets but particularly in Asian markets. Swan says ...

Euro endurance is lesser of two evils

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... social cost of failure is too great, according to UBS's David McMahon. The seemingly insurmountable level of debt in the eurozone remains arguably the single biggest concerns for global investors but McMahon, a cross-asset strategist in UBS's CIO investment ...

Flip flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... statement 13.5% I disagree since currency hedging is a wash over time 31.1% No opinion 16.2% 6. What will happen to the Eurozone? The Eurozone will stay intact 35.4% Greece but no other country will be ejected 23.2% The Eurozone will shrink to a core ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... Australian market looks set to open flat following a mixed performance on Wall Street and as markets await the outcome of a eurozone ministers meeting on a Greek bailout package. At 0644 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract ...

Abernathy snubs IMF liquidity drivel

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... Basel III capital requirements until 2020, while the enormous bailout of Greece is a thinly veiled means of preventing eurozone banks going under. He says that the IMF report overstates the risk to capital markets and believes any future shocks could ...

Bear market end in sight: AMP Capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... them out again. Through 2009 and early 2010 the stock market benefited from a quantitative easing fuelled rally only for eurozone debt-to-GDP fears to scare everyone back into safe-havens. But now AMP's chief economist says that the secular bear market ...

Thank you, xie xie, arigato

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012