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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... government bond yields fell on the expectations of the ECB jumping into the market, with the rate of return to investors on Spain's 10-year bond hitting a record low of 1.804 per cent. Italy's also touched a record low of 1.853 per cent. The euro touched ...

Phone usage reveals opportunity for financial services

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... mobile consumers places Australia as the fifth most concentrated smartphone market in the world after Singapore, Norway, Spain and Sweden. Part of a global four year longitudinal Deloitte study of 37,000 consumers spanning 22 countries - the research ...

One swallow says it's springtime for Germany

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... after falling month after month after month since December last year. The Euro Stoxx 50 index gained 1.2% overnight as did Spain's IBEX-35; the CAC-40 went up by 0.9% and Italy's MIB index closed 0.7% higher. Germany's DAX index - surprise, surprise ...

Hastings grows London and New York offices

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... previously worked at UBS Investment Bank infrastructure and transport team in London and at Arthur Andersen/Deloitte in Spain. Anne-Noelle Le Gal was also appointed at the manager's office in London, along with Ingrid Weston, who will lead the firm's ...

Super Mario dropkicks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... by 2.4%, Germany's DAX index dropped by 2.0%, France's CAC-40 index dropped by 2.8%, Italy's FTSE MIB dropped by 3.9% and Spain's IBEX-35 dropped by 3.1%. At the conclusion of the 4 September Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) - when ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... and a drop in shares in Allianz after its bond unit Pimco lost its chief. Madrid's IBEX 35 index added 0.63 per cent after Spain raised its growth and cut its unemployment forecasts. GfK's headline German household confidence index fell to 8.6 points ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... cent at 4,410.65. Madrid's IBEX 35 index also surged to close up 1.89 per cent after official data showed unemployment in Spain fell sharply in the second quarter - slipping beneath 25 per cent. The euro hit a new eight-month low against the greenback ...

Run with bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... much so that you'd be forgiven for thinking that the "running of the bulls" festivities is happening not only in Pamplona, Spain but... everywhere. But unlike in Pamplona, there appears to be little chance of being gored, not with the central bank offering ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... members in the secondary markets. As the Wall Street Journal puts it, "Yield spreads between government bonds of Portugal, Spain and Italy have fallen sharply since then versus those of Germany... Corporate bond yields have fallen, too". "The program ...

Crime pays: Why new European GDP rules are causing a stir

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... Lithuania, Poland and Romania; 1%-2% for Czech Republic, Estonia, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain; 2%-3% for Belgium, Denmark, Germany and France; 3%-4% for Austria, Netherlands and the UK and 4%-5% Finland and Sweden.