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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... Street, where investors sold off stocks because of lower earnings forecasts from US companies. Concerns about European sovereign debt also worsened after Fitch Ratings cut Greece's credit ratings by three notches to B-plus, and Standard & Poor's lowered ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... Australian dollar was slightly lower after a sharp sell off in the euro on Friday night (AEST) sparked by further Greek sovereign debt worries. At 0700 AEST on Monday, the it was trading at 106.42 US cents, down from 106.59 cents on Friday. Since 1700 ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... less than junk. European equities also closed higher led by a 1.25 per cent jump in French stocks. Say what? Has the sovereign debt crisis there been resolved? Au contraire, Spain (the big problem child) reportedly wasn't able to sell all the government ...

US to avoid default, EM stocks to rise: Janus

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... so far consider the possibility of default to be extremely unlikely. But if it did occur, the US would lose its AAA sovereign credit rating, interest rates would rise dramatically unravelling the financial system and pushing the US into a worse recession ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... growth for the April-June period. The Nikkei was also boosted by a relatively weaker yen as hopes rose the European sovereign debt crisis can be solved after a 78 billion euros ($A104.71 billion) bailout for Portugal was signed off and talks continued ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... many of its members. But nah, niet! Financial markets no longer see it that way in May. It's the same with the European sovereign debt crisis. European finance chiefs backed an EU/IMF bailout worth 78 billion euros for Portugal. This is good news. But ...

Straus-Kahn stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... Check! End of QE2 in June. Checked even before the Fed minted the very first QE2 dollar. Greek default and European sovereign debt crisis, China tightening, US debt, US dollar debasement, Japan nuclear crisis, MENA tension. Check, check, check and check. ...

IMCA: International expert to speak on the development of debt markets in emerging global economies.

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... on Wednesday, 18 May and Melbourne on Thursday, 19 May. Dr Higgins will address why emerging markets local currency sovereign bonds are an attractive asset class for investors, as institutional investors around the globe increasingly include them in ...

Winton Capital wins Future Fund mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... general appreciation of asset values. Winton's mandate was one of five new mandates given by the world's 13th largest sovereign wealth fund in the March quarter. It is not known how much the mandate was for. According to Rainmaker research, four mandates ...

Future Fund dabbles in India

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... Fund has awarded a new mandate to US-based venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners. The world's 13th largest sovereign wealth fund with $74.6 billion worth of assets under management issued the mandate to Bessemer some time in the March quarter ...