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Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... markets, re-igniting the uncertainty over America's and the wider world's recovery. Bad news came out of Europe. Spanish and Italian bond yields bounced back up last week and just yesterday, reports showed that Portuguese banks demand for ECB funding ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... there's more. There's still Europe of course. The ECB's LTRO Mark-II is working its wonders there. Interest rates on 10-year Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French bonds are going down. German ones were up a bit though. But this is also indicative that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... TURIN - A Swiss billionaire and a Belgian baron have been found guilty and sentenced to 16 years each in prison by an Italian court in a groundbreaking trial over 3000 alleged asbestos-related deaths. FRANKFURT - Market trading drops by around a half ...

Get up and go on board

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
... captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia that ran aground off Italy's Giglio island and Captain Gregorio De Falco of the Italian coast guard. What the heck is this doing in this column? Well, aside from allowing me to fill my number of words quota ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... however, by US-based cruise ship operator Carnival, the owner of a luxury liner that ran aground late on Friday off the Italian coast with the loss of at least six lives. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top shares closed with a modest increase of ...

Chinalising Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... the uncertainty that is the European sovereign debt problem. We were reminded of this again last night. Rising yields. Italian yields hit fresh euro-era high of 6.47% at its latest 5-year bond auction. Falling growth. Ifo cut its growth forecast for ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... weakness ahead," he said. Mr Elgar pointed to the muted reaction to the plan in European bond markets Friday, which saw Italian 10-year bond yields stay uncomfortably close to their recent highs at 6.5 per cent. "We were looking for some real firepower ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... 3,172.35 points. Milan soared 3.37 per cent and Madrid gained 2.23 per cent. On the eurozone bond market, yields on French, Italian and Spanish debt eased, while those on 10-year German bonds rose slightly. HONG KONG - Asian markets fell on fears Europe's ...

RBA right to cut rates and correct to hold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... growth in the Chinese economy for longer. And in Europe - although still highly suspect - news out last night are positive. Italian bond yields fell sharply to 6.16% after the government unveiled a a,-30 bil programme of austerity measures. Also, Merkel ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... before settling later in the day. Tension on the eurozone bond market eased markedly, with interest rates demanded on Italian and Spanish 10-year bonds falling sharply. In a sign of rising market confidence, Italy's long-term borrowing rate fell back ...