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Don't be disappointed if the ECB disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... unemployment rate and minus 0.2% inflation certainly needs a rate cut. So does Spain (26.3% jobless rate and 2.4% inflation) and Portugal (16.9% and 0.4%) and Italy (11.6% and 1.6%). If only the ECB's largesse get through to them... Recent positive developments ...

Fool's gold?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... 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, the pendulum has swung the ...

2011 and 2012 Redux?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013

Frightened eurozone savers to buy Aussie dollars

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... created fear which could have perilous consequences for depressed parts of Europe. He says that savers in Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Belgium are now legitimately concerned that further shocks could see their deposits taxed heftily. "This could now ...

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... "whatever it takes" Draghi's fighting alongside Uncle Ben. It's 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 ...

So stupid it could actually make money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... what's next? They could impose a series of one-offs along the way... a one-off to solve Spain's problems, a one-off for Portugal, a one-off for Italy, a one-off for... The Cyprus plan, if it's ratified, also begs the question of who's next on the firing ...

Ripples from a pebble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... in one sentence didn't you? Ripples from a pebble. This trouble spells bank run in Cyprus that could spread to Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and soon...the entire Eurozone that, in turn, could revisit the crisis in that part of the globe and threaten ...

The Celtic Tiger gets back its roar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... it's now less expensive for the government to borrow money from investors compared with Italy (4.67%), Spain (4.76%), Portugal (5.92%) and Greece (10.65%). Perhaps austerity isn't all that bad after all. Ireland, after all, is the one country that strictly ...

Public pension liabilities add to eurozone debt woes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... their public pension commitments are taken into account, while the situation of countries such as Spain, Italy, or even Portugal, is relatively better," said the report. Rises in the old-age dependency ratio and unemployment as well as stagnant growth ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... interest rates for the risk that sometime, one day, they might not get their money back. This has happened in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy, etc. But it won't happen in the US. We've seen this too. Remember August 2011? On the fifth of that ...