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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... Italy's cabinet has adopted a package of tax hikes, budget cuts and pension reforms worth 20 billion euros ($A26.44 billion). Prime Minister Mario Monti warned Italians they had to make sacrifices and said he was renouncing his own salary as prime minister ...

PM: Labor taking reform road on super

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
Prime Minister Julia Gillard told attendees at the Labour Union Co-operative Retirement Fund (LUCRF) community partnership trust launch in Sydney on Friday that the rise in the SG and abolition of the age cap would change peoples' futures. Pointing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... crisis. European stock markets fell as France and Spain faced a sharp spike in borrowing costs and Germany warned Italy's new prime minister to move fast to avert an even deeper debt crisis. Spain's treasury had to pay a record 6.975 per cent when it ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... - European stock markets fell as France and Spain faced a sharp spike in borrowing costs and Germany warned Italy's new prime minister to move fast to avert an even deeper debt crisis. In London, the FTSE-100 index of top companies closed down 1.56 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... points, to 19,348.44 while Shanghai was flat, nudging up 1.05 points to 2,529.76. Markets rallied on Monday after Italian prime ministerial nominee Mario Monti replaced Silvio Berlusconi. Greece also has a new leader, Lucas Papademos, former deputy chief ...

Russell: ECB needs to come to Italy's rescue

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... Monti yesterday, as the country held its first bond auction since yields pushed past 7% last week, preceeding controversial Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's resignation. Yields at the 3 billion euro auction hit another high of 6.29 %, causing fresh ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... continued to pay high rates to borrow a day after economist Mario Monti was name to succeed Silvio Berlusconi as Italy's prime minister. Greece's new prime minister, Lucas Papademos, faced the task of implementing security measures needed to secure the ...

Economist and former EU commissioner appointed Italian PM designate

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... commissioner Mario Monti will take over the reins as Italy's new designate leader, following the resignation of disgraced Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi last week. Monti, a respected economist who served as commissioner for EU internal markets and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... its public deficit and carry its debt for the long term. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly rose after Greece named a new prime minister to push through urgent reforms while Italy's borrowing costs eased as it searched for a successor to Silvio Berlusconi. ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... (0.13 per cent) to 2,625.15. "Stocks are higher today after Greece tapped former central banker Lucas Papademos as interim prime minister and (amid) reports of the European Central Bank buying Italian and Spanish debt," said Scott Marcouiller of Wells ...