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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... 376,000. LONDON - European equities sank and the euro hit a new two-year US dollar low, as sentiment was jarred by spiking Spanish bond yields and eurozone debt fears. Madrid stocks slumped and Spanish 10-year bond yields surged back towards the danger ...

Liars' Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... then and certainly not now - now that bigger names have signed up to join. Welcome to the Liars' Club its new member, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. The Spaniards loved him and elected him to the prime ministership because he promised not to raise ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... fret over the global impact of the eurozone crisis and poor US earnings, but sentiment has been partly boosted by a new Spanish austerity package. At the close, London's FTSE 100 index of top companies was unchanged at 5664.48 points. In Paris the CAC ...

Uncertainly good or bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... billion disbursed by the end of July. Yippee! And this would go straight towards bank recapitalisation and not via the Spanish government's balance sheet. Double yippee! Wait there's more. They gave Madrid an extra year to - 2014 instead of 2013 - to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... The positive opening in Australia came despite falls on Wall Street and European markets overnight following a spike in Spanish bond yields. US stocks fell ahead of the opening of earnings season, with the slow economy and worries about European stability ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... market looks set to open slightly higher despite falls on Wall Street and European markets overnight following a spike in Spanish bond yields. At 0825 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up five points at 4,095. In economic ...

Two cuts and a top up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012

Can this latest kick of the can can?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
... billion rescue - along with Germany's concession that the ESM would not have preferred creditor status - the yield on Spanish bonds (and Italy's) has come back down. The fact that, despite the blusters, Germany conceded is a coup in itself and further ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... from $1.2502 late on Monday in New York. HONG KONG - Most Asian markets fell on deepening European debt concerns after 28 Spanish banks were hit with a downgrade as traders remained downbeat ahead of a European Union summit. Adding to the gloomy sentiment ...

Is this the crisis moment?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... markets 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 ...