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| | | More often than not, it's good to know that one is in good company. I bet not a few of you gentle readers believed more the "Fed would unwind soon" headlines than this column's musing that, "that time is not yet". Yeah, the equity markets' performance ... |
| | | | Here's a quiz for you gentle readers, when was the last time you felt the fear over the prospect for the eurozone? It seemed oh so long ago, doesn't it? It appears just a distant memory especially when you look at the current performance of the Europe ... |
| | | | ... corporate financing." Greece with its 27.2% 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 ... |
| | | | It's getting close. It's less than two weeks away. Then we're in May -- that month of the year when the old Wall Street adage tells investors everywhere to sell and go away. And right on cue, the financial news are getting gloomier. We've already touched ... |
| | | | ... 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 (because Cyprus ... |
| | | | The Australian share market has opened higher amid views that investors over-reacted to Europe's debt problems with heavy sell-offs on Monday. Monday's falls in Australia were the heaviest of the year (above two per cent) but a relatively muted response ... |
| | | | ... So much so that 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 ... |
| | | | Poland, Chile and Spain look a better bet than the US and UK for institutional investors' sovereign debt portfolios, according to a new research report from AXA Investment Management. The investment house has developed a new framework for analysing ... |
| | | | keep your investments diverse and stay the course. That is the advice from Vanguard's chief economist in Europe, on the best way to design portfolios to adapt to the economics woes gripping the euro zone. Dr Peter Westaway explained how probable different ... |
| | | | "Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun Roll out the barrel, we've got the blues on the run..." -- Beer Barrel Polka by Vejvoda and IngriA! Roll out the barrel cause the All Ords' on a run. Roll out the barrel, it's broken five thousand! It's ... |
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