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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... escalating problems in Europe. Others, including France's Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel Denmark's Danske Bank and Finland's OP Pohjola Group also took the hit. Meanwhile, a surge in Italy's borrowing costs and comments from policy makers that quashed ...

PIGS!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... S&P warned that of the 15 Eurozone members, six countries - Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Finland - face a one-notch downgrade while the remaining nine are staring at a two-step markdown. And for the final oh-em-gee moment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... Standard & Poor's was poised to announce later on Monday that its was putting Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, and Luxembourg on "creditwatch negative" due to the deepening eurozone public debt crisis, the Financial Times reported. ...

Hope trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
... that's good. The Continent's performance was great! Germany's Dax index rallied by 5.3%, France's CAC-40 index by 5.74%, Finland's OMX Helsinki index by 5.1% and Italy's MIB by 4.9%. For greater emphasis, how about the 6.2% jump in Sweden's OMX Stockholm ...

Pigs may fly but they won't default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... index jumped 1.9 per cent and the FTSE-100 rallied by 1.5 per cent. If you think that's great, wait till you hear that Finland's OMX Helsinki Index surged by 3.5 per cent last night and Norway's OBX Stock Index by 2.8 per cent. But wait, isn't this all ...

SimCorp signs Fennia Mutual

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
Finland-based Finnish Fennia Mutual Insurance Company has chosen SimCorp Dimension as its new investment management platform. Fennia Mutual Insurance Company will be using SimCorp Dimension front-to-back. Following a detailed selection process, Fennia ...

Super, homes and savings a happy combo

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... among OECD countries, with an average score of 7.9 out of 10, beaten only by Ireland, Norway and Denmark (equal first) and Finland and Canada (equal second). The majority of the data used in this report comes from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics ...

Detox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... freezing public service hiring and closing down some government agencies. These are but the well-known ones. Hungary, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Romania either already are, or planning to go, on a low fat diet. So are the strongest members ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... 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 552 118 114 52.0 AAA 16. Italy 2,359 41 98 103.7 A+ 17. United States 13,627 44 95 60.7 AAA ...

Liongate snags $1 billion in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... alone, the fund manager received mandates from pension funds in Germany. Pension plans in the UK, Italy, Scandinavia, Finland, the US and several insurance companies in Japan have also put their money in Liongate's hands in the last 12 months. According ...