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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... 40 climbed 0.81 per cent to 3,401.56 points. Madrid leapt by 4.41 per cent and Milan added 1.54 per cent. The yield on Italian 10-year bonds dipped to 6.004 per cent from 6.048 per cent on Friday. The euro hit a one-month high at $US1.2444 in Asian trading ...

Maybe next month

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... September. To repeat, hope springs oh so eternal that even reports that Standard & Poor's "downgraded a broad swath of Italian banks, citing worries that the recession in the euro zone's third-largest economy could mean mounting losses for the country's ...

If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... 0.7% and the DJ Euro Stoxx 50 closed 3% lower overnight led by a 5.2% sell-off in Spanish equities and a 4.6% drop in Italian shares. Similarly, Spanish 10-year bond yields are back above 7% after dropping to as low as 6.6% on Draghi's promise (threat?). ...

Target Maturity Funds Take Top Spot

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... sector for its ability to provide more diverse exposure compared to traditional "lifestyling" options. The researcher said Italian target maturity funds have been a huge sales success, but unlike their French fonds a formule and Spanish garantizados ...

Believe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... him. The DJ Euro Stoxx 50 surged by 4.3% while we were sleeping, led by a 6.1% spike in Spanish stocks and a 5.6% jump in Italian shares. Wall Street did too - the Dow and the S&P 500 closed 1.7% on the up and up. I think I said this before Draghi did... ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... cent to 6582.96 points. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index was slightly more subdued up 1.36 per cent to 5.573.16 points. Italian shares surged by 5.62 per cent as a successful government bond auction also eased bailout concerns, while the Spanish market ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... Frankfurt's DAX 30 rose by 0.25 per cent to 6406.52 points as investors set aside news of sliding German investor confidence. Italian and Spanish markets rebounded, clawing back some of their recent losses suffered on eurozone debt crisis concerns. Milan ...

Food is the new Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... passed since their announcement of a "breakthrough" agreement on measures to keep the euro breathing? Now this? Spanish and Italian bond yields broke through the roof - rising to a high of 7.57% and 6.43%, respectively - while their equity markets dropped ...

Much ado, no do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... which, Moody's has just done to Italy what it did to Spain, which it did to Greece. Moody's slashed the ratings of 13 Italian banks - including UniCredit (the biggest) and Intesa Sanpaolo (the second biggest) - overnight after downgrading Italy's rating ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... CAC 40 rose 1.46 per cent to 3,180.81 points. Rome's FTSE Mib switched into positive territory following a successful Italian government debt sale, standing 0.96 per cent higher at 13,715 points, despite an overnight downgrade from Moody's. Madrid's ...