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When the time comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... first to the rest of Europe and then the world. This is why while financial markets wait for the outcome of the European Union's meeting and its verdict on Greece, we already know that Greek will be saved...by hook or by crook. And speaking of crook. ...

Market Wrap - Mid-Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... at 4,527, on volume of 10,957 contracts. Major US indices finished higher with stocks rallying on hopes that the European Union will help Greece manage its growing debt burden. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 150.25 points, or 1.52 per cent ...

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... no-bailout clause." Michael Meister, financial affairs spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, has the answer -- a bilateral aid or a package put together by a group of countries using the euro. The point is Greece ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... - US stocks closed higher on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average back above 10,000 on hopes that the European Union will help Greece manage its growing debt burden. Global markets bounced back on reports that European Central Bank President ...

New chapter in savings after government guarantee ends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
The termination of the government guarantee on wholesale funding next month gives a strong signal that - as far as the Australian government is concerned - the financial crisis is over. But the move could pose new problems for financial services providers ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... higher interest rates equals weaker economy. What a tangled web we weaved... The good news lies in the hope that the European Union would not let the PIGS roll in the mud. And in the unlikely event that it does, there is still the International Monetary ...

Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... Stoxx 600 Index down 2.7 per cent. A case of swine flu perhaps? Market sentiment started to sour after Greece's biggest union approved a second mass strike this month to protest against Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's plans to increase fuel ...

Financial services execs gain Aus day honours

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... through his role in lobbying for the rights of everyday workers through his long-standing involvement with the National Union of Workers (NUW).

No pleasing Mr. Market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... short-term memory lane. At the start of the week, investors and speculators alike were worried about China, State of the Union, Bernanke and US GDP. What were the results? China's 'fine-tuning' (again, yes fine-tuning) of its economy sparked fears that ...

Greek tragedy overwhelms Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... country. Greece sinking alone would not be a worry but it becomes a tragedy when it risks taking many of the bigger European Union members down with it. The Financial Times notes that, "The Greek crisis is a matter of direct concern to EU countries because ...