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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  |  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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
The Australian share market is set to open higher after Wall Street rose on news Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi would resign once a new budget was passed. At 0829 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 56 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... bonds had risen to the highest levels since the introduction of the euro. Yields did ease back after it emerged that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was on the verge of stepping down. The Italian parliament was due to hold a budget vote later ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... 24, the December share price index futures contract was 78 points stronger at 4,261 with 20,153 contracts traded. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, who faces a confidence vote in parliament, says he is prepared to drop plans for a referendum on ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... Friday, with about 7,000 passengers expected to have their travel plans disrupted. Its shares fell half a cent to $1.56, after Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned the government had powers under the Fair Work Act to intervene in the dispute if it began ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says keeping politicians out of an inquiry into the media is the right thing to do. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has accused NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell and federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of conspiring with ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... points and in Frankfurt the DAX dropped 1.0 per cent to 5,193.97 points. Milan dropped 1.98 per cent, unimpressed by moves by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government to reinforce its austerity proposals. Brussels fell 0.36 per cent, Amsterdam slid ...

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... economy and lift productivity so that when the Chindia resources boom peters out in 20-30 years time we'll be ready. Former prime minister Kevin Rudd must be ruing how this debate is so much like a re-run of his mining industry super profits tax policy. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... Noda defeated Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaeida in a second round of voting to effectively become Japan's sixth new Prime Minister in five years. The US dollar edged up to 76.69 yen from 76.65 in Tokyo afternoon trade. The voting came after Naoto ...