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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... results after a relief rally on the Greek debt accord fizzled out. Dealers said the Greek contingency debt package agreed on Sunday bolstered sentiment initially but by Tuesday commentary was turning increasingly to its potential shortcomings if it had ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... zone finance ministers approved a giant 30 billion euro ($40 billion) emergency aid mechanism for debt-plagued Greece on Sunday was another supportive factor, analysts said. The benchmark Nikkei rose 47.56 points to 11,251.90 after earlier rising over ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... overhaul of the sector. The market's about-face came as investors digested the House of Representatives' 219-212 vote late on Sunday to approve an historic health overhaul in the most sweeping social policy shift in four decades. At settlement, the Dow ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... level, darkening the outlook for overseas earnings. Political uncertainty also kept buyers at bay ahead of Japan's election Sunday, with voter surveys suggesting Prime Minister Taro Aso's ruling party is likely to be swept from power after half a century ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... - The Nikkei suffered its eighth consecutive loss after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost elections in Tokyo on Sunday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Taro Aso. His election bureau chief said Monday he was set to call a snap poll next month ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... and portfolio - would slow because Australia is no longer rated AAA. Shucks! We would be 'the lucky country' no more! The Sunday Age reported that while Standard & Poor's has maintained Australia's AAA-rating, it warned that '...if the balance sheet ...

Green sprouts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... resort to human importation. That was at 5.6 per cent unemployment! Go figure. As you sit in front of your Easter feast this Sunday, consider this. While times remain tough, there are emerging indications that the worse may be behind us. Sure lagging ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... were due for a (retreat)," he said, adding that the market was not responding as negatively to offshore bank bailouts. On Sunday, Spain's government and the Bank of Spain began to rescue major Spanish lender Caja Castilla La Mancha, the first Spanish ...

FPA stops "highly offensive" ads

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... solicitors asked Bannister Mansfield Financial Services director Gavin Murphy to stop running the advertisement that ran in the Sunday Telegraph last week. But the advertisement appeared again in last Thursday's Daily Telegraph and the FPA said they ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... month. Similarly, commodity prices went flying. The reason. Santa Klaus has come to town. In his weekly radio interview last Sunday, Santa Obama promised to produce the 'single largest new investment' in roads, bridges and public buildings since the ...