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Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
"When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's amore..." But Italians may not be in the mood for "amore", not when their economy - the third biggest in the Eurozone - is officially in a technical recession. La vita is no longer e bella! ...

Fear is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... Letta, deputy head of Bersani's Democratic Party, said on RAI 3 television. "Based on these projections, more than half of Italians expressed a vote against austerity, against the euro, against Merkel." And this: "A hung parliament would be a guarantee ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... - the S&P 500 soared to its highest level since January 2008; the Stoxx 50 jumped by 3.4% (Spanish shares up 4.9% and Italians up 4.35); Yields on 10-year Spanish and Italian bonds sank by 38 bps and 25 bps, respectively; the VIX index dropped by 12.1% ...

Is this the crisis moment?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... will never agree to commit German taxpayers' money to fund early retirement of the Greeks, the Spaniards, the Irish, the Italians, the Portuguese and just last night, the Cypriots. Then again, if the situation is so dire, that there's no way Europe can ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... Eurozone by the cojones, emboldened by the growing clamour against austerity from French voters and the Spaniards, and the Italians and the Dutch. And oh, judging from austerity crusader Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) recent defeat to the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... tax hikes, budget cuts and pension reforms worth 20 billion euros ($A26.44 billion). Prime Minister Mario Monti warned Italians they had to make sacrifices and said he was renouncing his own salary as prime minister in a gesture of solidarity. "Traders ...

Russell: ECB needs to come to Italy's rescue

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... massive savings of just over 59 billion euro by 2014 to get its budget back on track, with economist Monti admitting Italians would have to make "sacrifices".

Damned to default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... if additional money and/or forgiveness are bestowed upon the Greeks - the Irish, the Portuguese, the Spaniards and the Italians would be asking to have what she's having. Perhaps the only way out is for stronger Eurozone members to do a Germany - by ...

ECB relents, sort of

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... amounting 85 billion in 2011. The Greeks need around 11.4 billion. The Spaniards would require around 85 billion and the Italians would need to refinance about 120 billion worth. Trichet might have to do another U-turn as he has done in May when he first ...
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