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Economists divided over Europe growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... got what they could get. But the Germans wouldn't go along with a fiscal union." Today, "major economies like France and Italy are dreadfully uncompetitive compared to Germany," but they can't compensate with fiscal expansion, Probyn said. Pricipal Global ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... jumping into the market, with the rate of return to investors on Spain's 10-year bond hitting a record low of 1.804 per cent. Italy's also touched a record low of 1.853 per cent. The euro touched $US1.2302 in late afternoon trading in London, a level ...

One swallow says it's springtime for Germany

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... December last year. The Euro Stoxx 50 index gained 1.2% overnight as did Spain's IBEX-35; the CAC-40 went up by 0.9% and Italy's MIB index closed 0.7% higher. Germany's DAX index - surprise, surprise - beat them all, finishing 1.6% on the up and up overnight. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... points and in Frankfurt the DAX 30 index shed 0.81 per cent to 9,251.70 points. Milan tumbled 2.1 per cent after shares in Italy's third-largest bank, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, had to be suspended for excessive losses after announcing it was considering ...

ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... quality they called Asset Quality Review (AQR) based on certain stress criteria. Except for the banks that got an "F" - led by Italy's Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena whose share price fell by 22% -- it created little and temporary ripples. In one word ...

Super Mario dropkicks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... dropped. The Euro Stoxx-600 index dropped by 2.4%, Germany's DAX index dropped by 2.0%, France's CAC-40 index dropped by 2.8%, Italy's FTSE MIB dropped by 3.9% and Spain's IBEX-35 dropped by 3.1%. At the conclusion of the 4 September Governing Council ...

Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... quarter from 0.2% in the first and 0.3% in the December quarter of last year. Germany's one quarter away from following Italy into another recession with its GDP contracting by 0.2% in the three months ended June while France had been in a coma since ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... factors may have overstated the impact." This is bad enough in itself, but even worse when you consider that another big boy - Italy - is already in recession. Its economy shrank in the first and second quarters of this year - down by 0.2% in the June ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... stock market, of course, bore the brunt - down 3.7% on the day. But big fall were also registered in Madrid (down 2.0%) and Italy (down 1.9%). Even the Germany's DAX and France's CAC indices fell - down 1.5% and 1.3%, respectively. Similarly, Bloomberg ...

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of investor services Henry Capra

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... Capra talks to James Fernyhough about the increasingly competitive world of the custodian. That Henry Capra was born in Italy to Italian parents doesn't change the fact that he is a Sydneysider through and through. Apart from the first two weeks, he ...