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COVID-19 spurs proactive investing: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... period, over a third of Aussies tend to invest or make adjustments to their portfolios, compared to New Zealanders (24%), Germans (23%), and UK (26%) and Hong Kong investors (29%). Less than half (44%) of Aussie investors who identified as proactive ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... parliamentary leader of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party, said in an interview with BBC Radio 4 today. "Why should Germans bail out these people and they are not willing to accept at least a minor bailing out by themselves?" ( Bloomberg, 19 ...

Economists divided over Europe growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... fiscal union: "When they decided to do this crazy stupid thing called monetary union, they got what they could get. But the Germans wouldn't go along with a fiscal union." Today, "major economies like France and Italy are dreadfully uncompetitive compared ...

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... even be expanding in the Eurozone. While Germany's unemployment rate steadied at 6.7% in August from July, the number of Germans out of work increased by 2,000 in the month versus expectations that there would be 5,000 less. The 0.2% contraction in Germany's ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... austerity compliant without drowning the economy in its own blood. But who cares? Greece is no longer the word. Just ask the Germans.

So stupid it could actually make money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... line? After having gone after the securest of secured creditors, no one would be able to sleep easy. Except perhaps the Germans who are reported to have demanded a bigger tax on deposits - 40% -- before they cough up a,-3 billion to aid Cyprus. According ...

It's raining, it's pouring good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... expectations improved to minus 11.5 this month from minus 18.2 in September for its second straight monthly gain. Must be why the Germans are becoming more benevolent towards Spain. Bloomberg reports that two officials in Chancellor Merkel's party "said ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... could be forced to seek one by yearend. While the austerity for OMT conditionality was certainly inserted to appease the Germans, it had detractors questioning the effectiveness of the Draghi Plan. The reason being that it comes back to the brouhaha ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
... Mr Weston said. "Markets are now pricing in some aggressive responses in Europe and if we don't get them, because the Germans are against a lot of the action, then we could see a bit of a sell off later in the week." US stocks closed lower and European ...

Uncertainly good or bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... was 10 days ago? But then, given their history on this two-year debt saga, you wouldn't expect anything less from the Germans, would you? There was also bad news out of America. While Alcoa beat earnings estimates, those that followed - notably, Advanced ...
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