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PIGS!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... rates when they did -- the RBA lowered the official cash rate to 4.25% from 4.5% yesterday. It may have taken the Financial Times report leaking that Standard & Poor's is gonna go on a slashing spree. My, oh my. My, oh my indeed as Poor Standard - excuse ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... Austria, Finland, and Luxembourg on "creditwatch negative" due to the deepening eurozone public debt crisis, the Financial Times reported. S&P would not immediately confirm the report, but the news shook sentiment that had been buoyed by signs that Europe ...

Rewarding wishful thinking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... dangling another carrot, nay the hope for another carrot, in front of their noses. The carrot? The carrot was a Financial Times report quoting EU commissioner for economic affairs Olli Rehn saying that, "Capital positions of European banks must be reinforced ...

Ben calls on JMK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... the 21% agreed upon last 21 July. Wall Street jumped big time - yes on the same day in the final hour - after Financial Times reported that European officials are studying a bank recapitalisation plan. Yeah sure sure, I'll believe it when I see it. I'm ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... The euro rose to $1.3632 from $1.3590 in New York late Tuesday. The dollar fell to 76.53 yen from 76.84 yen. The Financial Times said Greece's second bailout had run into trouble, with some eurozone members pushing for private creditors to take a bigger ...

UBS $2bn rogue trader in custody

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... looking to shave off its books by cutting 3,500 jobs worldwide. According to a report published in UK newspaper, Financial Times, UBS did not discover the suspected rogue trading activity until midday on Wednesday, approximately 12 hours before they ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... per cent, Germany's DAX dropped 2.27 per cent and London's FTSE-100 lost 1.63 per cent. But a report in London's Financial Times that Italian officials had held talks with China over a potential purchase of Italian bonds caused US stocks to erase their ...

IMF just as baffled as we are

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... world economy, warns the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde. Writing in the Financial Times, Lagarde said world economic confidence has again been shaken and this is leading many political leaders and policymakers ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... Dow Jones Newswires. However, London's FTSE-100 got a boost from a surge in banking stocks on a report in the Financial Times that a reform of the British banking system to better separate investment and retail banking activities following the 2008-2009 ...

Super funds chase CPI linked assets

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... global pension funds. According to a global research study by Towers Watson, in conjunction with UK newspaper Financial Times, alternative assets managed by global fund managers on behalf of pension funds grew 16% in 2010. The research, which covers ...