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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... country tries to recovers from its record shock last month. Dealers said investors had a lot of news to deal with - a eurozone rate rise, Portugal seeking a debt bailout, more Middle East unrest - but had coped well for most of the day, finding support ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... and the GOP reached a compromise. This time, it won't be different. No worries. There seems to be no worries for the Eurozone too, even after Portugal announced that - dare they say it, it would be seeking EU/IMF financing bail out. What happened to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... firmer, finding support in solid corporate news as investors kept close watch on sky-high oil prices ahead of an expected eurozone interest rate rise. Dealers said the underlying tone was positive - the global economic recovery remains intact, with the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... unchanged at 7,175.31 points. There was more bad news for Portugal with a new ratings downgrade from Moody's, stoking fresh eurozone jitters. London was also hit by a downbeat survey from the British Chambers of Commerce, whose quarterly poll of 6,000 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... unchanged at 8.9 per cent. LONDON - European stockmarkets closed lower, tipping to the downside as concerns over a deepening eurozone debt crisis offset largely positive US economic data. Dealers said news that both Spain and Portugal are struggling ...

JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... that imports all - yes, all - of its crude requirement. Yet the Nikkei-225 index is down only 5.1 per cent this year. Eurozone equities have done one better despite the threat of an imminent interest rate hike compounding the still unresolved sovereign ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... to withstand a tumultuous backdrop of unrest in the Middle East, Japan's devastating earthquake and deep concerns on eurozone debt. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed up 0.27 per cent at 5,948.30 points. In Paris, the CAC 40 rose ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... on Tuesday after an uneven set of economic data with investors carefully watching events in Japan, the Middle East and eurozone struggler Portugal. Dealers said the continuing crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, damaged by the massive March ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... rate premium. Park your cash in Australia and you earn a 4.75 per cent return. Lend it to the US, Japan, the UK or the Eurozone and you might just as well keep it under your bed. The risk of your money getting devoured by bed bugs is less than almost ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... Dealers said the markets appear focused on the economic data and not the bad news backdrop of Japan, the Middle East and eurozone debt problems. TOKYO - Tokyo stocks closed 0.60 per cent lower on profit taking from last week's gains and on concerns about ...