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Aussie billionaires ranked in Forbes richlist

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... Slim topped the list with an estimated fortune of $73 billion, followed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates on $67 billion. Spanish entrepreneur Amancio Ortega, who owns the company behind fashion retailer Zara, lies in third place with a fortune of $57 ...

Just another ordinary day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... combined only a forth night before? On 4 Feb, the index dropped 1.5% on concerns over political uncertainty over reports that Spanish PM Rajoy could be forced to resign over allegations of corruption and increased prospects of a Berlusconi comeback in ...

Pepper acquires Spanish loan business Celeris

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Mortgage lender Pepper Group announced today an agreement to acquire Spanish consumer loan business Celeris. The acquisition includes a portfolio of approximately 164,000 performing consumer loans and a small non performing loan book, which represents ...

Gone in 60 seconds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... all of the previous day's loss while Europe clawed back some. The S&P 500 gained as much as 1.3% before closing at 1.0%. Spanish shares jumped by 2.2% and Italian ones rebounded by 1.1%. And why not? We've seen so many instances in the past when head ...

"Others" are still fearful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... threaten the single currency area to relapse in crisis mode again. If you haven't heard it yet, news out last night was that Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rahoy could be forced to resign over allegations of corruption. Spanish 10-year government bond ...

It's happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... index soared by 1.74 per cent to 7,973.70 points, rebounding from losses the previous day following heavy job cuts at Spanish nationalised lender Bankia. London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies jumped 1.15 per cent to 5,870.3 points. In Frankfurt ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... bank nationalisations in Europe. I couldn't find the list of nationalised banks in Europe this year except for the four Spanish banks. On Basel III, Reuters just recently reported that "Europe is preparing to follow the United States in postponing the ...

Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... surplus in August - the second surplus in the euro's history - following a a,-0.5 billion surplus in the previous month. The Spanish central bank report also showed that inflows of foreign portfolio investment amounted to a,-2.3 billion in August - the ...

Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... 10-year bond yields, a sign of stress in the eurozone, continued their downward slide. The rate of return for investors on Spanish 10-year bonds dropped to 5.616 percent from 5.670 per cent on Tuesday. The yield on 10-year Italian bonds slid to 4.960 ...