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Fed lady sings (the same old song)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... Parliament. No one dared move... just in case. The S&P 500 index showed more reaction overnight - up 0.8% -- more because of Greece (austerity measures passed by Parliament) and better-than-expected US company earnings reports and another up day in China ...

Fund managers take cover behind cash sandbags

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... panellists with US$510 billion of assets under management participated in the survey from 2 July to 9 July 2015, before Greece agreed terms for a third bailout.

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... - another missed deadline on the ever-spinning Greek debt saga. Financial markets - well, except for those not labelled Greece anyways -- don't seem to be perturbed though. And just as I typed on this space a few days before 20 July is the "real" and ...

Lift-off on Carney's mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... immediate -- the pound strengthened and yields on 10-year gilts shot up. To be sure, governor Carney still has doubts about Greece, "The process by which this agreement was struck, the nature of the agreement, the scale of the challenge, underscores ...

Market up at midday on Greek relief

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... continues to rally strongly as the Greek debt crisis appears to move towards resolution. Global markets have lifted after Greece reached a tentative new bailout deal that would avoid it dropping out of the euro zone. Analysts say the reaction of international ...

86 billion Euros are in the mail, just

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... They demanded more stringent conditions - and raised additional ones - than the ones they originally proposed. But hey, Greece gets a,-86 billion over three years. At least, Greece can sleep easy for three full years... or maybe not. For as The Economist ...

Temporary trial separation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015

Still in the woods

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... stay. It's the weekend again folks and it's gonna be another long one. Yes, it's another weekend, another deadline for Greece - Sunday's the new D-day for a deal. But relax. Reports are both Greece and its creditors have softened their stances. That's ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... peak earlier in the session. LONDON - Europe's stock markets finished higher as optimism surged ahead of a deadline for Greece to submit new bailout plans, while a rebound in Chinese shares boosted sentiment. Frankfurt's DAX 30 finished 2.32 per cent ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
What Greece has started, China's finishing. To be sure, the tragi-comedy that is Greece is far from over, not with crunch time moments ever so foreverly moved - 23 February was the first "this is it moment" for Athens, that became 24 Feb, that became ...