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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... highlighted the fragile economy where wage growth is minimal and unemployment, though easing, remains high. LONDON - European stock markets clawed back some ground despite weak eurozone data as the Bank of England hinted that a widely anticipated rate ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... Barack Obama warned Vladimir Putin not to use "humanitarian aid" as cover to send in Russian troops to Ukraine.... and European Commission (EC) President Jose Manuel Barroso who, according to the EC's statement, "warned against any unilateral military ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... fall in the ZEW German investor confidence index to 8.6 points in August, its lowest level since December 2012. LONDON - European stock markets have stumbled after recording strong gains a day earlier, with sentiment hit by weak German data and uncertain ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... following gains on Wall Street and in Europe overnight. The lift comes after gains of more than one per cent on major European indices and a smaller rise on Wall Street. Patterson's Securities economist Tony Farnham said resources and financial stocks ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after falls on US and European bourses amid escalating tensions between the West and Russia, and talk of possible military action by the US. At 0830 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... climbing again after September 11, 2001). In Europe, http://www.notre-europe.eu/ noted that, "...whilst on average western European countries spent 3.1% of their Gross Domestic Product on defence between 1985 and 1989, this figure had fallen to 1.7%10 ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... market had opened higher than expected on Thursday. "We are starting to divorce ourselves a little bit from the US and European declines," he said. "I would anticipate that we will do less than the US on the downside for a little while and we might be ...

Tit-for-tats and all that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... the grounding of a subsidiary of national airline Aeroflot because of EU sanctions, with one newspaper reporting that European flights to Asia over Siberia could be banned". Obviously, the aim here is to erode European airlines' competitive advantage ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... presence on the Ukraine border, suggesting a possible escalation in the conflict, prompted further market falls. LONDON - European stock markets have ended higher for a second day running, staging a tentative rebound from last week's losses after positive ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... weaker commodity prices. Declines in the base metals and oil prices overnight, combined with further falls in US and European equity markets on Friday, are weighing on the local market, CommSec market analyst Juliana Roadley said. It fall also follows ...