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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... In Australia, the market on Monday closed stronger after raft of positive earnings results and growing likelihood of euro zone finance ministers approving another bailout for Greece. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 60.2 points, or 1.43 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... forward of that easing has seen the Aussie dollar leap higher to start the week." Mr Jones said all eyes would be on the euro zone finance ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday night, Australian time. The ministers will decide the delivery of a second ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... Greece's bailout package and its ability to avoid default, and Moody's ratings cut on six European nations due to the euro zone crisis. At 0817 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was down two points points at 4,207. In economic ...

Plan 5 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... British Prime Minister David Cameron echoed the world's sentiment for the Eurozone, "We wish them well as we want the euro zone to sort out its problems, to achieve stability and growth that all of Europe needs." But as for the overall verdict on the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... blocked loans for Greece and highlighted divisions between Europe and the United States over the best way forward for the euro zone. At close, Paris's CAC-40 index fell 3.0 per cent to 2,940 points. In Frankfurt the DAX dropped 2.83 per cent to 5,415.91 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... to 4,229.9. NEW YORK - US stocks closed higher on Friday in their fifth straight day of gains, despite a meeting of euro zone finance ministers that scuttled hopes for strong action on Europe's debt crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 75.91 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... after the leading central banks launched concerted action to provide dollars to cash-squeezed markets spooked by the euro zone crisis. A shortage of dollars for European banks, deserted by their usual sources of finance, had thrown a black cloud over ...

Good news from bad stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... September 2009 -- from 51.6 in July. The manufacturing PMI slid to 49.7-its first sub-50 reading since September 2009. The euro zone composite PMI - manufacturing and services combined - was flat at 51.1. And these were good because...? At least for ...

No risk of a double-dip recession: survey

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... were all expected to return 10 per cent, with Chinese shares rising 10.5 per cent. Smaller returns were expected from Euro zone stocks at 7 per cent, and Japan at 6 per cent. Australian fund manager Principal Global Investors is especially bullish on ...

Fed & RBA on the ball

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... upped the ante, declaring that '"We're in a survival crisis. We all have to work together in order to survive with the euro zone, because if we don't survive with the euro zone we will not survive with the European Union." Hear that? The EU would be ...