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Fixville here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... interest rates on Eurozone borrowings, enough to reverse the moribund economic growth dynamics in the region - particularly, in light of the Spartan fiscal austerity measures most euro area members are currently implementing. The fat lady is yet to sing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street closed down. At 0717 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was down 37 points at 4,181. In economic news on Thursday, Reserve Bank assistant governor ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
Australian shares were higher but had pulled back from early gains by noon as investors' optimism that France and Germany will have a plan to fix the eurozone debt crisis waned. The local market opened about one per cent up on Tuesday on the back of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... last 10 to 15 minutes." He said he was sceptical about how much substance there was to the rally, with the EU Bank Aid Plan light on details, with no one offering to stump up money for recapitalisations. Locally, the materials and financial sectors were ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... points, also 0.1 per cent, to 4,072.1. RBS Morgans Reynolds Equities director Markus Mueller said trading volumes were very light heading into the long weekend. Turnover was 925.63 million shares worth $4.21 billion, with about five of every 10 stocks ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... dropped 34 points to 4,060 points, with 18,291 contracts traded. IG Markets dealer Chris Weston said trading volumes were very light with markets under pressure after ratings agency Standard & Poor's did what investors expected Moody's to do - and "the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... coordinated effort by five central banks to provide US dollars to cash-squeezed European banks. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in October, climbed 49 US cents to close at $US89.40 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. ...

Insurance industry prepared for black swan flock

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... under priced, according to Aon. The industry is coming to accept 'black swan' events as a far more common occurrence in light of natural disasters spanning the globe in recent years from volcanoes in Iceland and Chile to tsunamis in Asia, tornadoes in ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... Friday, ahead of significant US non-farm payrolls figures due in the offshore session. "Risk assets will either get the green light or the red light when US non-farm payrolls are released," Mr Waterer said. "A print of sub-fifty thousand jobs would definitely ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... on a patrol mission saying it would "display the capabilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran". New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in October, fell 36 cents to $US88.54 per barrel in the afternoon while Brent North Sea crude for ...