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Pushing on a string

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... went largely unnoticed - is that the G's have again expanded. It began as the G-6 in 1975 - comprised of the US, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and the UK. It became the G-7 in 1976 when Canada joined. Seven became G-8 after Russia's inclusion in 1998. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... LONDON - Europe's main stock markets rallied strongly, boosted by an election win for a business-friendly coalition in Germany and corporate takeovers in the US. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed 83.5 points, or 1.64 per cent higher, at ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... is being saved and not spent. Have money, will travel. Money fixes anything. This has been proven over the past year. Germany, France, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore are now out of recession. Australia never had one. And the US and the UK are getting ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... slightly higher on Tuesday as fresh merger activity and rising commodity prices were offset by mixed economic data from Germany, Europe's biggest economy. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares rose 14.16 points, or 0.29 per cent, to 4947.34 ...

G-20 reasons to be hopeful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... wreaking havoc to everything in its path during the previous two meetings, it appears that the storm has now passed. Japan, Germany, France, Singapore, Hong Kong are among economies which reported growth in the second quarter and contractions in the ...

Bigger doesn't always mean better

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... currently employs six "regional teams" to work on its international equities fund, which are US, UK, Europe, Asia, Japan and Germany. "Each of these regional teams are putting in place an unconstrained concentrated portfolio from the bottom up, so their ...

Day of silence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... in our minds. But look around. The seemingly unending contraction in the global economy has ended. The big economies of Germany, Japan, France and the smaller ones, Hongkong and Singapore have already stepped out of recession. Others are getting there. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... hit 2009 highs on rising hopes of an economic recovery. The markets appeared to shrug off a closely-watched survey in Germany that showed businesses in Europe's biggest economy are at their most confident since the spectacular collapse of US banking ...

U V W X Y Z

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... recession be over? A: Bottom out in second half of 2009. Recovery has already started in some advanced economies (Australia, Germany, France, Japan) and most emerging markets (China, India, Brazil, parts of Asia and Latin America. Other advanced economies ...