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Judgment Day bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... the lower the credit rating. A classic downward spiral! And while Fitch was in a cutting mood anyway, it also downgraded Belgium's ratings outlook from stable to negative. Not to be outdone, Standard & Poor's found a bigger fish to fry, cutting Italy's ...

Food profits to rise: Macquarie

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... Australian grazing land on which it runs cattle and sheep. Abraham said the land area owned is bigger than the size of Belgium (30,528sq km) and puts Macquarie in the top 10 owners of Australian land by area. Increasing demand in years ahead would be ...

Aussie fund managers outside top 100

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... countries with smaller economies, and smaller investment markets than ours, including South Africa, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium, all have entries in the top 100. With the exception of South Africa (boosted by 34th placed behemoth Old Mutual, who has ...

PGI appoints CEO for Asia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... Foreign Service in Washington D.C., and a masters degree in European Union studies at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, where she studied on a Rotary fellowship. She received her law degree from Georgetown University Law and is a member of the ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... of GDP S&P US$ Billion US$000 % % Ratings 1. Ireland 2,311 550 811 31.5 AA+ 2. United Kingdom 9,388 154 336 47.2 AAA 3. Belgium 1,618 155 327 80.8 AA+ 4. Hong Kong 660 94 295 14.5 AA+ 5. Netherlands 2,439 146 268 43.0 AAA 6. Switzerland 1,304 171 264 ...

The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... to loosen its securities quality rules to facilitate the bailout of German firm Hypo Real Estate; the government's of Belgium and Luxembourg sold their respective 75 per cent and 67 per cent share of Fortis' assets to BNP Paribas; to shore up its capital ...

Fed on Zero Interest Rate Policy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... to loosen its securities quality rules to facilitate the bailout of German firm Hypo Real Estate; the government's of Belgium and Luxembourg sold their respective 75 per cent and 67 per cent share of Fortis' assets to BNP Paribas; to shore up its capital ...

Fortis bank $19.5bn bail-out 'stabilises' FIA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... Ian Manton-Hall. The fate of Fortis took a sharp turn for the better this morning (Sydney time) after the governments of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg knotted out a $19.5 billion (11.2 billion Euro) rescue package to save the bank from following ...

AXA North open for non-super savings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
... marketing. The hedging strategy has been developed and tested across the AXA Group's US, Japan, Italy, Spain, Germany and Belgium offices. Emery said the product would appeal to those wanting to protect personal savings and self managed super fund trustees. ...

Who cares about the US, it's Asia that matters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... juggernauts and why the Country Party was so dominant. Behind the UK, France took 9 per cent of our exports, followed Belgium which took 8 per cent and Germany 7 per cent. India took 6 per cent, Japan took about 3 per cent, China about 2 per cent and ...