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Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... forgotten all about Greece and its debts, and its deficits, and its restructurings and privatisations...and the threat of contagion it presented to the euro area of not so long ago. While Greece is still is the news, it's no longer news. No one seems ...

It'll be on 18 September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... not a few were still warning of a double-dip in America and Europe was boiling with Spain the limelight and renewing contagion fears. Now not a soul dares contemplate an American double-dip nor a contagion made in Spain. In fact, latest reports out of ...

Breaking the bad in the eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... bunga boy Berlusconi? It was only two months ago when the prospect of Cyprexit - and its bail in template -- brought contagion fears back to haunt. There's not much talk about those bad ol' days these days, 'ey? There's no more fear and no more tears ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... focus on growing its economy and reversing the rising unemployment in the country (26.3% as at February). Hopefully contagion works in reverse too with increasing confidence for Spain flowing through into other problem economies in the Eurozone. Then ...

Global cooling on carbon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... Whatever works to keep the Eurozone economy working again. And once more, like any made in Europe predicament, it spells contagion...into Australia in particular. You can almost taste Ernest Miller Hemingway's immortal words, "don't ask for whom the ...

Fool's gold?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... central banks last year. But you know the drill. Just like any other story that comes out of the Eurozone, it's about contagion. What if Greece, or Portugal, or Spain, or Italy, or... are forced to the same at their next bailout negotiations? Suddenly ...

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... because of him that benchmark bond yields in the PIS - Portugal, Ireland, Spain - actually dropped over Q1. Despite the contagion scare, the problem had been localised in Italy and Greece (because Cyprus is Greece many claim) with their bond yields rising ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... it got. But net-net, financial markets took it in their stride. It was going to be a "one-off" anyways. No talks of contagion...... until Dutch FinMin and Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem spilled his brains out in an interview with Reuters and The ...

Ben's your uncle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... thing the US Federal Reserve's monthly FOMC meeting came when it did -- right in the midst of another bout of European contagion speculation. Just imagine if suddenly...Uncle Ben comes out of the wild blue yonder with a declaration that the Fed would ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... for It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright) Sun-shiny day." -- Johnny Nash, "I Can See Clearly Now" Remember contagion? Sure you do. We all feared it when itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie Greece threatened to go it alone - never mind the GFC, that ...