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Sell in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... to tell Greece -- especially Germany (oh sorry, Merkel has been saying this to Papandreou for months now). The European Union/IMF have agreed to keep the Greek isle afloat with a three-year, a,-110 billion lifeline. All was well... so it seemed. Until ...

Troubled Greece to freeze pensions

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... minimum, so those on low income will largely be protected from the lower pension policy. In a joint statement, European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn and IMF's Strauss-Kahn said they recognised the sacrifices that will have ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... close and positive results from top companies. Major European bourses returned to positive territory after a top European Union official said talks on a multi-billion-euro bailout for Greece were nearing completion. The benchmark FTSE 100 index closed ...

Liar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... deceive." - Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808) Greece has just climb 10 notches up crap creek when Eurostat - the European Union's official Statistician - called it a liar. Eurostat revealed last night how it discovered that Greece's 2009 budget deficit ...

US instos get active on human rights

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
... region. The proposals came from a number of sources including US-based Amalgamated Bank, the Service Employees International Union's Master Trust and Chicago-based Sisters of Charity. While the number of shareholder proposals might appear low, the actual ...

Astarra pain spreads to super funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... complicated than it looks due to trustee rules and, as a separate matter, industrial laws. For example, the United Services Union will be kept informed of all developments. The spokesperson said the company was able to get the two months of contributions ...

PGI appoints CEO for Asia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... international relations from Georgetown University - School of Foreign Service in Washington D.C., and a masters degree in European Union studies at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, where she studied on a Rotary fellowship. She received her ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... 966.72 points. HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks closed higher on Friday as investors welcomed the announcement that the European Union would come to the aid of debt-laden Greece. The Hang Seng index closed up 274.56 points, or 1.32 per cent, at 21,053.11 ...

Flip-flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... clearly be very, very bad." Recall that over the past few days, financial market nerves calmed following reports that European Union leaders have agreed to call in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the Greek rescue. The deal was that Eurozone ...

Fitch scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... not been disproportionately affected by the global downturn, prospects for economic recovery are weaker than 15 European Union peers, which will put pressure on its public finances over the medium term." But what's new? Moody's already downgraded Portugal ...