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Slack Eurozone labour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
... 53.8). Across the region, the lowest jobless rate was recorded in Germany (4.1%) and Malta (4.8%) while Greece (23.1%) and Spain (19.2%) had the highest.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
... driven by improvements in output, new orders, new export business and employment. Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Spain recorded the fastest growth in September, Italy moved to expansion territory while France edged closer to stability. Greece ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... the region's second biggest economy. Strong monthly gains in construction output were also recorded in Slovenia (up 2.0%), Spain (1.9%) and Germany (1.8%). In year-on-year terms, euro area construction output rose by 3.1% in July after a 0.6% gain in ...

Australians overconfident when it comes to income risk

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... of respondents stating they would consider buying income protection, this followed by the UK (42%), Hong Kong (45%) and Spain (46%). "When you take into account of all those cultural aspects, financial literacy etc., that does result in relatively low ...

PROFILE: Standard Life Investments head of Australasian business Simone Bouch

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... suddenly I was confronted with all these different cultures with Southern Europe versus Northern Europe and Germany versus Spain. It was a massive learning curve but it was great. Having a team with such diversity of culture was so different. Henderson ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... the world total. Australia's A$1.6 trillion GDP is in thirteenth place with a 1.6% share sitting between the twelfth place Spain and the fourteenth placed Russia. Hot on Australia's heels however is Indonesia which is currently in sixteenth place with ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... Hungary (-26.6%), Slovenia (-21.2%) and Poland (-13.8%), while increases were observed in Sweden (+14.4%), Romania (+7.5%), Spain (+3.1%) and the Netherlands (+2.1%). HSR rail's 30,000 km global network With talk of High Speed Rail again gathering pace ...

ANZ ETFS readies Eurozone ETF

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
... covers 50 of the largest stocks from 12 countries within the Eurozone including France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. ESTX offers Australian investors an opportunity to expand the spread of their overseas investments, as well as providing ...

Australian elections just gave uncertainty a top up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
... be underway, the Brexit referendum (held on 23 June) just happened to get there first, putting the UK in limboland. So is Spain. It was drowned out by Brexit and its ensuing uncertainty, but the 2016 Spanish elections (held on 26 June) is also in limboland. ...

Eurozone splintering is biggest risk in Brexit fallout

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... industry commentators. Following UK voters' decision to leave the European Union on July 24, political figures from Greece, Spain, Italy and France have discussed the possibility of similar referendums. French far right Front National leader Marine Le ...