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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... eurozone -- what is being dubbed a "Grexit". The country's new finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, will visit three European Union capitals next week to push the government's agenda for a renegotiated deal on its multi-billion-euro bailout, his office ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... attractive yield in a low return environment." Looking abroad will be another key trend in 2015. Lower valuations in the European Union and Japan are likely to attract long term focused investors, while "any stock exposed to the United States economy ...

Crowding in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... the EC's fresh initiative to breathe life into the region's comatosing economy. The Juncker plan, according to European Union (EU) VP Jyrki Katainen, is designed "to crowd in more private investment in order to make real investments a reality". There ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... and in Paris the CAC 40 jumped 1.89 per cent to 4,208.42 points. The gains erased losses posted Tuesday after the European Union slashed its economic forecasts for the eurozone. But equity markets brushed off news of sliding retail sales across the eurozone ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... exports slowed and imports remained flat from the previous month. LONDON - European markets fell sharply after the European Union slashed its economic forecasts for the eurozone, while the energy sector sank on plunging oil prices. London's FTSE 100 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... cent) to 1,985.54, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index lost 16.6 (0.36 per cent) at 4,575.21. The US and European Union unveiled new sanctions on Russian banking and energy companies, a plan that was immediately attacked by Russian President Vladimir ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... climbing again after September 11, 2001). In Europe, http://www.notre-europe.eu/ noted that, "...whilst on average western European countries spent 3.1% of their Gross Domestic Product on defence between 1985 and 1989, this figure had fallen to 1.7%10 ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... Australian share market is slightly lower, as investors digest the impact of Argentina's debt default and US and European Union sanctions against Russia. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the market was relatively quiet as it tried to balance out ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... 40 tumbled 1.22 per cent to 4,312.3 points. Energy companies led the charge lower, after the United States and European Union agreed to expand restrictions against Moscow, targeting the Russian energy, defence and finance sectors. Russian markets, however ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Reports that the US of A and the European Union have expanded the sanctions they've imposed on Russia reminded me of that ancient Spanish torture weapon - the garrotte. Wikipedia describes the garrotte as "a practice of strangulation by which the condemned ...