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So what if Australia loses its 'AAA'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
Boyoboyoboy, looks like we're in trouble now for this "Lucky Country" could soon run out of luck. No use covering our eyes, ears and noses, it's all over splattered all across the media - old and noveau - Standard & Poor's has just put Australia on ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... Spain were the ugly ducklings of Europe. They had inefficient economies, had been relying on EU funding and were heavily indebted. Today, most investors see an opportunity in the so-called European peripherals. But as always in Europe, things are much ...

QIC asks government to step up, break toxic cycle

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... they're going to look for revenue somewhere else and that's going to hit the consumer." But with Australian consumers more indebted than they were prior to the global financial crisis, there is a risk that they stop spending and confidence falls. "Then ...

Market set for a fairly flat open

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... Industrial Average dropped 0.2 per cent and Frankfurt's DAX 30 index fell 0.79 per cent as the tense stand off between heavily indebted Greece and its creditors hung over a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven nations in Germany. Locally ...

Super tax in firing line

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
Superannuation is likely to be in the firing line as the Federal government looks for tax savings in a bid to repair the fiscal state of the economy, according to BT chief economist Dr Chris Caton. "The generosity of the super taxation structure will ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
Financial System Inquiry (FSI) chairman David Murray spoke at the National Press Club following the release of the FSI interim report. "Thank you to the National Press Club for the interest you have shown in today's release of the interim report of ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... without fighting" (Bruce Lee, "Enter the Dragon"). I don't have to explain how lower bond yields the region's highly indebted member countries to lower their debt burdens and their deficits... they're also reviving confidence and growth. The European ...

New AllianceBernstein fund offers solution for Fed tapering

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... but market-weighted benchmarks have always had certain structural weaknesses, such as a high representation of heavily indebted borrowers. Recently they have acquired more duration and concentration risk, too," she said. Martier added that with interest ...

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... the ECB increasingly looks like it's succeeding.A Though bond yields have risen from their 2013 lows among the highly indebted members of the single currency region to date, they remain substantially lower compared with the all-time highs recorded in ...

Breaking the bad in the eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... both. Yes they are working! Just look at the drop in yields investors demand to lend to those big deficit and highly indebted sovereign members. Greece 10-year bond yields are now down to single digits. Investors now want just want 8.25% to purchase ...