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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... looks set to open lower after Wall Street closed down despite recovering somewhat from a sharp opening fall sparked by a Portugal bank scare and general investor caution. At 0645 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was down ...

Crime pays: Why new European GDP rules are causing a stir

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... the GDP of Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania; 1%-2% for Czech Republic, Estonia, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain; 2%-3% for Belgium, Denmark, Germany and France; 3%-4% for Austria, Netherlands and the UK and ...

Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... June" - he did none of that when he delivered his keynote address to the ECB's annual Forum on Central Banking in Sintra, Portugal last night. There were no ifs, ands, ors... nor buts. No more "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle yeah..." I can just ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... the first quarter from the previous one, the French economy produced zero growth while that of Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Greece and Finland are back with a minus sign in front. A central banker's work is never done, eh?

International media question Australia's "austerity budget"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... journalist said that "compared to most countries, Australia is doing relatively well" and added that "this is not Greece, Portugal or Spain." Australia's budget deficit is about 3% of its gross domestic product (GDP), public debt is less than 20% of ...

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... - are an equilibrating force. They bear the pressure from economic adjustments. Just look at the economy of the PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain) and Italy - they're economies bore the brunt of adjustment because they're bound by that single currency ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... positive year-on-year rate since the fourth quarter of 2011. You'll get to love it even more when you see that the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) have all expanded in the first quarter -- Portugal up by 0.5%, Italy up by 0.1%, Greece up 0.2% ...

New EM bond rater proposes fresh approach

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... joint venture ratings agency network between smaller firms that include MARC from Malaysia, the CPR ratings agency from Portugal, SR from Brazil, CARE from India and GCR from South Africa. ARC has a combined 6000 clients. Choo Yee Kwan, country risk ...

There's the good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014

In praise of the gloom and doomers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014