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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... the deadline for the deal draws near. AMSTERDAM - Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders has called for a national referendum on abandoning the euro and reintroducing the guilder. BRUSSELS - Spain is hurtling towards an embarrassing test case and possible ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... stocks recover before another US survey showed home prices continued to fall in December. Ireland's decision to call a referendum on the EU's fiscal pact gave the euro a fleeting knock. In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed ...

Weekend worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... gain made the week before. We spent the 5-6 November weekend wondering what's next for Greece after PM Papandreou's referendum/no referendum announcement was met by the Franco-German threat that Greece may be expelled from the Eurozone. It was another ...

Hero to Zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... fingers and announced that Europe's handshake shouldn't be with him but with the Greek people. He's putting the deal to a referendum. We gave the world democracy. We're practicing that democracy by letting the Greek people decide! (not his words, mine). ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... more austerity measures. However, Papandreou shocked the world on Monday by saying he would put the bailout deal to a referendum, raising the prospect it would be rejected by a nation already fed up with swingeing cuts. Adding to Friday's buying sentiment ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... Prime Minister George Papandreou, who faces a confidence vote in parliament, says he is prepared to drop plans for a referendum on the European debt rescue package which had sent world markets into a tailspin. The surprise European Central Bank rate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... European major markets moved more than 1.5 per cent higher on Greece's indication it would not hold a debt bailout package referendum. At 0825 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up 88 points at 4,271. In economic news ...

Shape up or ship out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
Germany and France has called Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's all-in "referendum" gambit. Monsieur Sarkozy and Fraulein Merkel suspended the disbursement of the a,-8 billion rescue tranche until Greece makes up its mind to stay in the Eurozone ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... Australian market had started positively but subsequently had drifted away. "Markets are divided about whether or not a referendum in Greece is a good idea," he said. "There's an argument on one side that this just delays the process and introduces further ...

Machines of loving grace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... Cannes would cobble together. Waiting for tomorrow night's US non-farm payrolls report for October. Waiting for Greece's referendum. It's them that will determine how the next few days, weeks and the rest of the year pan out. That blip up in the indices ...