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Arrivederci Berlusconi Ciao

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... benchmark, Ireland and Portugal found themselves requesting a bail out." At present count, the Italian government is indebted to the tune of a,-1.3 trillion. It needs to rollover a,-30 billion worth of debt in the coming weeks and refinance a,-300 billion ...

Market Report- Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), to convince markets it has the means to protect highly indebted nations such as Italy and Greece. HONG KONG - Asian shares surged after weekend meetings of European leaders resulted in "good ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... yields move in opposite directions. LONDON - European equities have fallen on fresh concerns over banks' exposure to indebted Greece, but losses were capped by expectations of more stimulus measures from the US Federal Reserve. However the European single ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... crisis. Stark, a German, had been a sharp critic of the ECB's controversial program of buying government bonds of deeply indebted eurozone countries like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy. "The markets are falling sharply because there is a ...

Goodnight Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
And so one by one the dominoes are junked. First Greece, then Portugal and now Ireland. That's the order Moody's took them out - one after the other. But what surprised for equity markets was just a ho-hum matter for bond investors. Know why? Just look ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... markets closed, sending stocks sharply lower and erasing the day's gains. The move puts Ireland back on the list of heavily-indebted European countries in danger of default. If a European country fails to pay its debts, it could cause widespread disruptions ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... remained unable to agree on how to avert an outright default by Athens, and as worries had also spread to the heavily indebted Italy. Friday's announcement that the US economy had produced almost no new jobs in June, and that the unemployment rate rose ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... fiscally-strapped nation's problems can be resolved. Greek President Carolos Papoulias has summoned political leaders to discuss the indebted nation's economy on Friday, seeking consensus on the Socialist government's austerity moves, his office said. ...

Much ado over a known known

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
Is this the start of something big... or another dip buying op? Wall Street retreated big time last night. The S&P 500, the Dow and the Nasdaq all closed 1.1 per cent leaner. Is it perhaps investors want to gain a head start on that good 'ol adage ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... were the Swiss market and Amsterdam, both down 0.12 per cent. European finance ministers meeting in Hungary agreed that indebted Portugal should be given a bailout of some 80 billion euros ($A109.56 billion), which would be linked to strict austerity ...