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Asian counterweight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... default. And this is giving everyone the jitters. Not least is US Treasury Secretary Timmy Geithner who preached to the Europeans to act more forcefully to solve their crisis. Yeah, he can talk. "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's ...

Other play factors

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... or down and under. So while we may be sick of the game of chicken politicians in Washington are still playing and the Europeans' sport of kick the can, I bet you that RBA Governor Glen Stevens is losing many nights of sleep over them. And not only these ...

Net-net, it's still good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... despite jubilation over the Greek tragedy I still am very suspicious of Europe. Remember the "fool me once..." saying? The Europeans have not only fooled us once, not twice nor three times but thanks to my archives, I've counted five times overt the ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... the easiest way out - for Germany and all other financially stronger members to opt out of the Eurozone? And for the Europeans to swallow their pride and accept that another experiment at monetary unity has failed. The first time they tried - and failed ...

Back to cactus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... all in unison shouting that the global recovery is improving. Today it's back to cactus. What do I think? I think the Europeans will try their best not to let Greece sink for as long as they could but eventually their kicking the can down the road will ...

Diamonds are a fund's best friends

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... Financial Services. The firm, which has US$275 million in funds under management, says financially stretched Americans and Europeans are selling their gems at distressed prices. It is putting together a collection of large, rare and highly sought stones ...

Middle East mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... long-term credit rating to AA- from AA. This really isn't such a nasty mole as Japan is not beholden to foreigners as the Europeans are and besides, the resulting yen depreciation is exactly what the Japanese government wants - it'll boost its external ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... any cause for immediate concern? For the smaller countries perhaps - as we've seen over the past few months with the Europeans - but not for the US and Japan. America has the US dollar - the international reserve currency - it can just continue to mint ...

Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... has the potential to send markets in a tailspin every time the bond market barbarians attack the gates of Europa. The Europeans kicked the Greek debt crisis can of 2009 down the road into the Irish debt crisis of 2010. This got kicked still further down ...

ECB relents, sort of

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... juice... at least for now. Because having tasted blood, bond market vigilantes will be out for more. Just you wait when Europeans come back to go a-begging in the financial markets next year. Bloomberg reports that Portuguese banks need to refinance ...