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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... 3,135.18 points. Rome's FTSE Mib index dipped two per cent at 13,584 points, despite news of a successful 7.5 billion euro Italian government bond sale. The European single currency, after falling to $US1.2167 - the lowest level since late June 2010 ...

Two cuts and a top up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012

Is this the crisis moment?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... fallen by only so much. The S&P 500 closed 1.6% lower last night and the Euro Stoxx 50 ended 2.6% down. Sure, Spanish and Italian stocks tumbled by more -- 3.7% and 4.0%, respectively -- and Athens sank by 6.8% last night but this sort of fluctuations ...

Census 2011: Australia is changing, and fast

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... foreign languages at home and those languages are changing with Mandarin now the second most popular language, surpassing Italian. Reinforcing this cultural metamorphosis, Chinese and Indian Australians are now our largest non-anglo heritage groupings ...

PE firms Myanmar bound

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... Bagan Capital, together with the European Chamber of Commerce (Singapore), the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (Singapore), the Italian Chamber of Commerce (Singapore) and the Italian Chamber of Commerce (Singapore) are listed among supporters of an investment ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... CAC 40 climbed 1.82 per cent to 3,087.62 points. Madrid gained 0.34 per cent and Milan jumped 2.34 per cent after the Italian government adopted growth measures and plans to sell off some state-held companies and property. In foreign exchange deals ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
The Australian share market opened slightly higher despite weak offshore leads on the back of higher Spanish and Italian borrowing costs. At 1011 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 13 points, or 0.32 per cent, at 4,076.7, while the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... get up to 100 billion euros ($A128 billion) in eurozone loans for its troubled banks has fizzled out, with Spanish and Italian borrowing costs rising further. After posting solid gains early on Monday, London's FTSE 100 index closed essentially unchanged ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... more before. The closest to this one was back in early November last year when the Dow plunged by 3.2% on the 9th because Italian bond yields surged way above bailout territory - 7.48% -- Greece and Spain were about to hold elections and Frau Angie proposed ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... but now it's become prominent - it's scarier if the Eurozone's third biggest economy is thrown into the mix after all. Italian 10-year bond yields passed 6% overnight and the government sold only sold a,-5.73 billion five and ten-year paper at auction ...