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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 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
Australian shares gained 0.5 per cent after Italy announced $26 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts as it strives to avoid an economic meltdown. At 1200 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 25.5 points, or 0.59 per cent, at 4,313.5 ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... earlier prediction of 1.7%) and 0.7% next year (down from the 2.5% predicted in March). In the Eurozone, last night's Italian bond auction of three-year credit sold at yields at 7.89% and 10-year yields rose to a new high of 7.56% -- now far beyond the ...

Worry me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... view, the longer the liquidity crisis continues, the more rapidly the probability of defaults will continue to rise." Italian yields hit 7.3% in an auction of a,-567 mil 2023 inflation-linked bonds. And still in Italy, the International Monetary Fund ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... amid the eurozone debt gloom. Dealers said investors waited hopefully but got no clear lead from a French, German and Italian leaders' meeting after a failed German bond auction on Wednesday shook confidence in the safe-haven status of Europe's biggest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... amid the eurozone debt gloom. Dealers said investors waited hopefully but got no clear lead from a French, German and Italian leaders' meeting after a failed German bond auction on Wednesday shook confidence in the safe haven status of Europe's biggest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... GMT, from 3.457 per cent on Friday, after having risen to 3.591 per cent in the morning. The rate of return on 10-year Italian bonds rose to 6.647 per cent from 6.631 per cent on Friday, while Germany's 10-year bonds benefited from safe-haven buying ...

Market Wrap- Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... points. European stock markets closed mostly lower on Friday after a modest technical bounce as investors tracked rising Italian, Spanish and French borrowing costs and efforts to tame the debt crisis.