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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... said sentiment has steadily improved recently on the view that the US economy is coming out of the doldrums and that the eurozone debt crisis will be resolved, with strong corporate results bolstering the more positive tone. The euro meanwhile bounced ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... (ECB), and fell further thereafter, suggesting markets had curbed expectations of a rate hike early this year. The shared eurozone unit retreated to 1.3648 dollars, compared with 1.3808 dollars late in New York on Wednesday. HONG KONG - Renewed concerns ...

One voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... slippage", according to Bloomberg. This is an encouraging sign an even more if, indeed, the one currency, one central bank Eurozone could come up with one united solution to their fiscal and debt misery. What's that union battlecry again? "The people ...

Middle East mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... be in hibernation. Financial markets are appeased for now because of expectations that the stronger countries of the Eurozone - Germany and France - would agree to increase the size of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and allow it to ...

Market Wrap - Mid Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
Australian stocks opened marginally weaker on Thursday, following a soft lead from Wall Street on worries about eurozone debt woes. At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 5.2 points, or 0.11 per cent, at 4,762.6 points, while the broader ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... European markets also rose as the Europe Central Bank decided to continue stimulus measures in an effort to boost the Eurozone economy. "The stirrings of recovery in America are there," Mr Bishop said. "It's not tangible, but you can smell them, and ...

ECB relents, sort of

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... Jean-Claude Trichet last night when he announced only "small" measures to battle ongoing financial market tension in the Eurozone. Trichet told a news conference that the ECB Governing Council decided to extend the provision of special liquidity measures ...

Rise of Asia bonds: Temasek

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... expects some US$17 trillion of public debt refinancing and budget funding obligations to come due from US, UK, Japan and Eurozone over the next three years. "The Asian and Singapore bond markets would provide corporate issuers alternative markets to ...

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... continued protestations by the ECB, it will have to do a Fed and expand monetary policy - the alternative is to break the Eurozone apart and send its member country their separate ways. European pride dictates that this is an unpalatable alternative. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... Australian market has received negative leads from offshore trading overnight, driven by concern about weakness in the Eurozone and instability in Korea. On the ASX24 at 0720 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was two points lower ...