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Maybe next month

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... eternal that even reports that Standard & Poor's "downgraded a broad swath of Italian banks, citing worries that the recession in the euro zone's third-largest economy could mean mounting losses for the country's lenders" (AFR) failed to dampen the markets' ...

Benchmarks stop us thinking: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
... defines a 'Goldilocks' economy as one that is not so hot that it causes inflation, and not so cold that it causes a recession. AXA IM surveyed 97 institutional investors and consultants at a series of roundtable events titled 'Sensible mandate design ...

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... element of surprise in them. They caught investors off guard. But this ones -- the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis and recession and potential dismemberment, the China hard landing story and slowing emerging market growth, the sluggishly growing US economy ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... blue-chips. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index closed essentially unchanged at 5498.32 points despite news that Britain's recession deepened substantially in the second quarter of 2012. British gross domestic product slumped by a worse-than-expected 0.7 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... points. Madrid lost a hefty 1.99 per cent, additionally under pressure after the IMF forecast a worsening of Spain's recession, and Milan shed 0.36 per cent. In foreign exchange deals, the European single currency turned around to trade firmer at $US1.2266 ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... 9 March 2009 because "Even if you do everything right with fiscal and monetary policy, we're still going to be in a recession through the end of this year and into next year." The S&P 500 index closed at 676.5 points that very day - which turned out ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
... at a record low of 0.50 per cent and announced STG50 billion ($A76 billion) in additional stimulus to boost Britain's recession-hit economy. That brought the total amount of stimulus provided by the BoE so far to STG375 billion ($A572.91 billion). London's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... Thursday along with a decision by the BoE to pump out an additional STG50 billion ($A76.78 billion) in stimulus to boost recession-hit Britain. When trading ended for the day in London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index was essentially unchanged at 5,684.47 ...

Waiting on the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... in 2008). And why not? Only 5.1% of us are unemployed (full employment if you ask me). Remember the last Australian recession? That time, the jobless rate went from 5.8% (December 1989) to 11.1% (July 1992) and didn't fall below double digits until May ...

QE hope - must be getting tough again?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... BBB from A with a negative outlook only last week (7 June). According to Fitch, "... Spain is expected to remain in recession through the remainder of this year and 2013 compared to the previous expectation that the economy would benefit from a mild ...