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Oil central bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... at last night's auction. Investors remain convinced that Portugal will eventually be forced to beg for a bail out like Greece and Ireland. But there may be a big surprise coming to a theatre near us on 11 March 2011 -- a surprise that could determine ...

Greeks, chips and slicks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... raising the spectre of default - and warned that this may be slashed further. I don't know about you but if you're still in Greece given the warning signs of the past year, you either know something many of us don't or you're extremely greedy for those ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... Adding to the mix, Standard & Poor's warned that it would keep its credit ratings on debt-riddled eurozone eurozone pair Greece and Portugal on negative watch, meaning that they are at risk of being downgraded. Before the opening of trading in the United ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... balance their budgets? Not to mention, the still punitive interest rates being paid on their borrowings by the governments of Greece, Ireland, Portugal... Surely, these are bound to restrain Europe's economic growth at best or at worst, lead to a double-dip. ...

Levy disaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011

Haste makes waste

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... ECB also re-started bond purchases. We were all convinced until we found that the sovereign debt crisis did not stop at Greece. We were all convinced until we saw most European nations slashed government spending and raise taxes to right their wrong ...

When good is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... will increase risk of policy mistake, will cause a hard landing... in China and then the world. Bad is good. Moody's cut Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk. There's political uncertainty, nay unrest is a better word, in Ireland. The Greens Party ...

Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... crisis of 2011. The Portuguese are vehemently denying there's a crisis or that they'll need funding support. But didn't Greece do the same? And Ireland? Both succumbed eventually. Sometime, somewhere... the road will reach a dead end. And when that is ...

Turkeys, PIGS and Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... fund Portugal's trip to the ICU if it gets bloodied, Spain would be a total wipe out - it's economy is twice the size of Greece, Ireland and Portugal combined. Even our good friend Dr. "gloom and doom" Roubini has made a comeback proclaiming that Spain ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... comply and the economy would limp back to health very slowly. Financial markets would forget all about it, like they did Greece. But then... they'll start searching for whos' next. They're scouting around as we speak. Portugal? Spain? Italy? But "If ...