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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... sort of default," Paterson Securities client adviser Peter Morgan said. "This is going to be a negative day." At 1037 on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 64.3 points, or 1.5 per cent, at 4,216.4, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... Australian shares are set to fall as world markets dropped ahead of a crucial meeting of European leaders. At 0820 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was 67 points lower, or 1.56 per cent, at 4,216. There is no economic news ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... officials struggling to craft a debt-crisis deal ahead of this week's summit. Traders hope European leaders will agree by Friday to link their budgets more closely. France and Germany have called on them to renegotiate Europe's founding treaties and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... cent in the September quarter for an annual rate of 2.1 per cent, according to an AAP survey of 16 economists conducted on Friday. Commsec chief economist Craig James said the figures showed the Australia's record economic expansion was continuing. "What ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... European markets mostly fell on the news. Traders are looking ahead to a crucial summit of European leaders that wraps up Friday. They hope to see more concrete solutions to restore long-term confidence in the euro and rescue the region from the sovereign ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... Europe," Commsec market analyst Juliana Roadley said. "We really won't see what the framework is going to be like until Friday. "And even if they were to come through with a massive agreement it would take time to implement." At 1205 AEDT on Tuesday ...

RBA right to cut rates and correct to hold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... programme of austerity measures. Also, Merkel and Sarkozy are reportedly getting closer to resolving their differences ahead of Friday's EU summit. The number of times they've been meeting over the past few months, I'm beginning to think Merkel is giving ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... below the key six per cent threshold for the first time since the end of October, dropping to 5.94 per cent from 6.661 on Friday. The yield on 10-year Spanish bonds also fell to 5.09 per cent from 5.626 per cent on Friday. The difference between France's ...

PJC: Government needs to re-think payday reforms

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... to the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) on Corporations and Financial Services for inquiry. The report, released on Friday, has backed up industry concerns that proposed caps would affect the viability of short-term lending. The PJC inquiry, chaired ...

PM: Labor taking reform road on super

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... 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 to the work of "visionary" Labor ...