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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... 2,828.47. Greece's debt crisis weighed on the equities markets amid speculation that Athens will need an additional bailout. Eurozone and European Union finance ministers are expected to discuss Greece at meetings on Monday and Tuesday. The Labor Department ...

Straus-Kahn stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... circulating jitters, most American economic indicators point to a continuation of its recovery. Also, news out of the Eurozone over the weekend showed that the 17-nation economy expanded by 0.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2011, nearly three times ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... retreated on Wednesday with investors reacting to a clutch of company announcements and disappointing economic data in the eurozone and United States. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of leading shares fell 1.62 per cent to 5,984.07 points. In Paris ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... the Middle East. That faded on Tuesday. On Thursday, investor attention will return to interest rate decisions in the eurozone and Britain. The European Central Bank is expected to keep its key interest rate at 1.25 percent, but may signal a further ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... Standard & Poor's downgrade on the US debt outlook spooked investors already worried by signs of fresh tensions over eurozone public finances. The S&P downgrade on the US debt outlook to negative' from stable' set off a chain reaction across all markets ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... spike in inflation pointed to higher interest rates as Beijing clamps down on prices. Higher inflation figures in the eurozone and in India added to the mix, prompting investors to push gold to fresh record highs as they put their money in the traditional ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... investors reacted nervously to German comments that Greece might have to restructure its debt, stoking fresh fears over the eurozone. Dealers said an unexpected jump in US new unemployment claims also hit sentiment, denting confidence in the US economic ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... of some 80 billion euros ($A109.56 billion), which would be linked to strict austerity measures. Portugal is the third eurozone country after Greece and Ireland to request a bailout and its plight has increased speculation that Spain - the fourth largest ...

Yikes the ECB hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... target ceiling. The bank would not be held hostage or cowered into holding fire because of the lingering crisis in the Eurozone periphery. The ECB believes that its recent move - along with individual governments' efforts to rectify their fiscal balances ...

Unshaken and unstirred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... refinancing rate by 25 bps to 1.25 per cent after holding it at an 'emergency' low of 1.0 per cent since May 2009. But Eurozone equity markets seemed unfazed. The Euro Stoxx 50 index fell by less than 0.3 per cent overnight. And this in spite of Portugal ...