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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... 0.27 per cent to 3,709.76 as prudent traders awaited comments at the end of a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels. Milan's FTSE Mib index lost 0.85 per cent to 15,542.17 points as the eurozone member continued to face political uncertainty ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... - European stock markets were mixed and the euro advanced against the US dollar as eurozone finance ministers met in Brussels after last week's EU budget deal. Supermarkets were in focus on Monday as a Europe-wide food fraud scandal over horsemeat sold ...

Today we wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... Europe's main stock markets were largely unchanged after reversing earlier gains because EU ministers ended talks in Brussels without reaching a deal on a European-wide banking union. Sentiment early in the session had been boosted by a Greek debt buyback ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... as dealers welcomed a surprise rebound in German business confidence while they watched another EU impasse unfold in Brussels. The benchmark FTSE 100 index rose by 0.49 per cent to close at 5,819.14 points in London, Frankfurt's DAX 30 gained 0.89 per ...

Urbanisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... However, this is nothing new. Li had been championing this urbanization idea since May this year when he addressed the EU in Brussels on 'EU-China Partnership on Sustainable Urbanisation'. Last September, the China Daily reported that, in his meeting ...

A good new year past the cliff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... 3,504.56 points. Madrid's IBEX 35 sank 2.31 per cent to 7,913.40 points on a lack of any clear breakthrough at a summit in Brussels and after German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced stiff opposition to using new eurozone rescue funds to replenish the ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... but still closed higher for the fourth consecutive day on growing confidence in Europe as a key summit got under way in Brussels and investors anticipated an improvement in Spain's financial situation. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... anything at all that we are doing." The discussions were reportedly behind closed-door session at the European Parliament in Brussels. So what is it doing out in the openness of cyberspace - and seemingly with all the juicy details at that? This makes ...