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Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... market's reaction to its warning? Investors have even taken its warning one step further - that it might downgrade the US next. Lest we forget. How quickly investors forget that the credit-rating agencies' and their supposedly omniscient credit-ratings ...

GFC Problem solved

... team that matters most after all. It is the home team that decides whether they are still worthy heads of their states. But lest I be accused of being a party pooper, indications are slowly mounting that this time, the equity markets' rally could be ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... world with its cheap exports. But now, the US might think twice before raising its voice to one of its biggest creditors lest US-bound Chinese money disappear faster than you could say yum cha. The US could also reason that the Swiss started it this ...

Ho hum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... taxpayers' like it or not, the US authorities have no other option but to give in to the requests of these private jet flying CEOs lest their workers find themselves walking their way down to the soup kitchens come Christmastime. Like a bad hangover ...

In defense of Citi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... institutions that followed Lehman Brothers' collapse, America has now no other choice but to douse the flames with taxpayers' money, lest it burns the whole house down. Citi has the largest financial services network in the world with around 12,000 offices ...

New dynamics, new realities: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Timor-Leste president and Nobel Peace laureate Dr Jose Ramos-Horta told delegates at the annual ASFA conference to prepare for the "new economic realities", where countries often overlooked in global policy-making such as Saudi Arabia, India and South ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) maintains that the rescue package - in one form or another - would eventually be ratified. Lest financial markets would be feasting on Campbell Soup for Christmas - and that is just the good news.

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... to salvage the financial system, but at the same time individual members have no choice but to vote 'aye' to the proposal, lest they go down in history as the one who killed the capitalist society. As the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) has ...

East Timor Petroleum fund signs JPMorgan

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
JPMorgan extends its custodial reach in Asia-Pacific after being chosen by East Timor's Banking & Payments Authority of Timor-Leste (BPA) as global custodian and administrator for the $3 billion Petroleum Fund. The BPA is the operational manager of ...

New chair at Virgin Money

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
Virgin Money Australia has appointed David Baxby as the new chairman of the company following the departure of Macquarie Bank deputy managing director, Richard Sheppard, from the role. Baxby, who is also the chief executive of Virgin Management Asia ...