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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... 13.95 points higher (0.46 per cent) to 3,030.93. Sharemarkets in London and Frankfurt were weaker, but the French and Spanish bourses added value. Locally, the major banks have led the gains on Thursday morning following Commonwealth Bank's (CBA) record ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... 13.95 points higher (0.46 per cent) to 3,030.93. Sharemarkets in London and Frankfurt were weaker, but the French and Spanish bourses added value. Locally, the major banks have led the gains on Thursday morning following Commonwealth Bank's (CBA) record ...

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... only three months before), German factory orders dropped by 1.7% in June (more than twice as much as the 0.8% fall) and Spanish 10-year bond yields have risen again. And so they should. Nothing has changed that much since yesterday - or for that matter ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... took space away from reports that Italy's economy contracted for the fourth consecutive quarter in June or how bad the Spanish property market has become that the country's biggest real estate website idealista.com has now resorted to sex ads to sell ...

If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... especially, Signor Draghi. The S&P 500 fell by 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 ...

Target Maturity Funds Take Top Spot

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... researcher said Italian target maturity funds have been a huge sales success, but unlike their French fonds a formule and Spanish garantizados cousins they do not come with a guarantee that all or part of an investor's capital will be repaid. In other ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
... exposure in recent days in response to European Central Bank president Mario Draghi's indication that lowering the level of Spanish bond yields fell within the mandate of the ECB. US stocks closed in the red as Wall Street hopes for US Federal Reserve ...

Believe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... Financial markets did. They believed 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. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... Italian shares surged by 5.62 per cent as a successful government bond auction also eased bailout concerns, while the Spanish market soared 6.06 per cent in value. The euro spiked to $US1.2290 from $US1.2153 in New York late Wednesday. HONG KONG - Asian ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... 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 jumped 1.17 per ...