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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... extended gains, dealers said. News that Athens will announce a fresh series of measures on Wednesday to curb its public deficit and debt supported sentiment, suggesting that the EU will back Greece to find a way out of a crisis threatening the eurozone's ...

Longevity swaps to top £10bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010

Positive spin to bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... weakening. Big Ben did not say anything new. The job stimulus should be taken as negative for it adds to America's ballooning deficit. But Wall Street wanted an up day. It got it. Who am I to complain?

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... investor confidence. Analysts also pointed to lingering unease about prospects for Greece, struggling with a debt and deficit crisis and hit again on Tuesday by a credit downgrade on its four largest banks from ratings agency Fitch. The London FTSE 100 ...

Goldman Sachs backs Greek swap deal

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... financial position could have been far worse if the swaps had not been organised. The investment bank estimates that Greece's deficit in 2001 was -4.5 per cent but without the swaps it would have been -4.64 per cent. "The Greek government has stated ...

Good news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... thing as a free lunch. Kansas City Federal Reserve President Thomas Hoenig warned in a speech that the country's fiscal deficit is on an "unsustainable course" and that if "pre-emptive corrective action is not taken regarding the fiscal outlook, then ...

Happy days are back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... one-month lifeline - 16 March 2010 - to prepare more budget measures if it fails to make sufficient progress in cutting its deficit by then. If the European Commission is not satisfied with Greece's efforts, the EU "will impose on Greece the acceptance ...

Change of heart

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
It wasn't that too long ago that central banks the world over were losing their attraction for the US dollar and diversifying their currency reserves. China, Russia, Asian and Middle Eastern central banks were falling in love with the yen and the euro ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... its financial crisis. In Brussels, pressure was mounting on Greece to take tougher action to slash its debt and public deficit, with Athens responding by insisting that Europe spell out what it will offer in the way of an eventual bailout. The London ...

When the time comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... article in the German newspaper, Der Spiegel, that Goldman Sachs "helped the Greek government to mask the true extent of its deficit with the help of a derivatives deal that legally circumvented the EU Maastricht deficit rules". Sunk by derivatives...again! ...