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Speck of sand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... It wouldn't be missed if it goes the way of the pharaohs. Its biggest trading partners are the United States, China and Germany. Based on the CIA Factbook's figures, Egypt buys a puny 0.3 per cent of these countries' total exports. No big loss on the ...

Middle East mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... hibernation. Financial markets are appeased for now because of expectations that the stronger countries of the Eurozone - Germany and France - would agree to increase the size of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and allow it to buy bonds ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... disappointment over progress towards budget tightening in the United States, Japan, Brazil and Europe. While it lauded moves by Germany, France, Britain and Spain towards deficit reduction, it also warned that, "In the euro area, a more comprehensive ...

When good is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... at best or scuttle it, at worst. No finance bill equals no 85 billion euro bailout from the EU and the IMF. Moreover, Germany remains stubbornly resistant against increasing the 750 billion euro European Financial Stability Facility. Bad, right? Again... ...

Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... eventually. Sometime, somewhere... the road will reach a dead end. And when that is reached, their stronger northern neighbours (Germany, France and the UK) - the ones underwriting their debts suffer. And if they do, all of Europe goes. When Europe goes ...

Best house in the slums

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... Australia's bourse has also fared worse than its faraway European neighbour. The FTSE-100 is up 7.4 per cent this year and Germany's DAX index has surged by 17.6 per cent. Doesn't anybody see the house burning? Even absent the punishing interest rates ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... their ability to survive a recession and/or a sovereign debt crisis. Only seven banks failed -- five in Spain, one in Germany and one in Greece - and the amount of fresh funding that would be required amounts to only a,-3.5 billion, not the a,-30 billion ...

Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... great together..." Aww, how sweet! But this is to be expected. Many of its friends - Switzerland, the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France - have already withdrawn or announced their intention to withdraw their troops in Afghanistan. Australia's ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... deficit country like America to propose but no one at the table really expected trade surplus countries like China, Japan, Germany or host South Korea to agree to limit the trade flow that are putting food on their citizens' tables, do they? So that's ...

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... Goldilocks moment with financial markets - it's either too hot or too cold. There were some bad news bears in Europe too. Germany's ZEW index of economic sentiment declined for the sixth straight month to a one-year low in October. The index of consumer ...