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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... was poised to announce later on Monday that its was putting Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, and Luxembourg on "creditwatch negative" due to the deepening eurozone public debt crisis, the Financial Times reported. S&P would not immediately ...

Fixville here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... holdings of Greek bonds. Why the quotation marks on voluntary? Because it was an offer they couldn't refuse. Just read Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker's lips: the European Union "wouldn't resist for one second to move toward a scenario ...

Ausbil Dexia assures investors following European bailout

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... government to buy its Belgian arm. To prevent the bank from going to the wall it was also decided that Belgium, France and Luxembourg would pump a total of 90 billion euro into the bank. Under the proposals, Belgium will provide 60.5%, France 36.5% and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... back up beleaguered eurozone banks. Adding to the sense of optimism on Tuesday was a decision by France, Belgium and Luxembourg to bail out Dexia bank, the first lender to be dragged under by the European debt crisis. Tokyo closed 1.95 per cent higher ...

A yearning for softer yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011

The good, the bad and the whatever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... the ratings of the core components of Dexia S.A. -- Dexia Credit Local, Dexia Bank, and Dexia Banque Internationale a Luxembourg - "which together represent over 90% of the group's consolidated assets." Yes, them the bad news. The ones who not so long ...

Rewarding wishful thinking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... from the 27 European Union countries spent several hours discussing what to do about their banks at a get-together in Luxembourg Tuesday without reaching a conclusion. After the meeting, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that not all countries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... institutions, the Financial Time website reported. The details of the plan are being discussed but EU ministers meeting in Luxembourg said they had not done enough to convince financial markets that Europe's banks could withstand the current debt crisis. ...

Euro solar attracting Australian investment

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... of domestic due to lack of stability and uncertainty at home, according to private equity firm Polaris Energy. The Luxembourg-based company said that Australian investors were highly interested in renewable investments, but were put off by uncertainty ...

European authorities will blink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... but on lower negatives than when their opening bell tingled. These because, according to AAP with BusinessDay, "...Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker assured investors that a solution will be found to Greece's debt crisis." Sure, sure. No, this is not ...