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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... Union and the IMF in exchange for a rescue package for the debt-ridden country. LONDON - Plans for a major shake-up of Britain's banks are to be revealed on Monday when a government-appointed commission publishes final recommendations aimed at avoiding ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... funds with it, a signal of reluctance by banks to lend to each other. European bank shares slumped on the developments. In Britain, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) slumped 12.32 per cent to 21.78 pence, while Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) dropped 7.46 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... 30-year bond climbed to 3.59 per cent from 3.51 per cent. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions. LONDON - Britain's FTSE 100 ended the day 2.4 per cent higher at 5,394.53 while France's CAC-40 closed 3.1 per cent higher at 3,256.76. Germany's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... temporarily as the main worry remained centreed on Standard & Poor's momentous decision to lower its triple A rating for the US. Britain's FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed down 3.4 per cent at 5,068.95, while France's CAC-40 slid 4.7 per ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... confidence by reducing its official opinion of US creditworthiness to AA+, below that of AAA-ranked countries such as Britain, Australia, Germany and Canada. It is expected to have an effect on US bonds, pushing yields up and prices down, increasing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... dived 4.3 per cent on the Nasdaq as the troubled media giant faced a deepening crisis over its phone-hacking scandal in Britain, with a prominent former executive, Rebekah Brooks, arrested over the weekend. Bond prices fell slightly. The yield on the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... strongest in Milan, where the main index rallied to close 1.8 per cent higher and Italy's bond yields edged down further. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 37.5 points, or 0.6 per cent, to 5,906.43, while Germany's DAX gained 93.8 points, or 1.3 per cent, to 7,267.87. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... years intensified overnight when News Corporation announced it would close its London-based tabloid, News of the World, Britain's best-selling Sunday newspaper, in an effort to limit the fallout from the phone-hacking affair. News Corp shares were up ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... on Wednesday and Thursday. They said early trade on Friday was tentative, however, after subdued manufacturing data in Britain, China and the eurozone but it then picked up after US figures surprised on the upside, sending Wall Street sharply higher. ...

Former ANZ chief rumoured move to UK Aviva

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... UK newspapers, McFarlane will replace Aviva's current chair, Lord Sharman, with the appointment to still be approved by Britain's Financial Services Authority. The news comes just one week after Aviva's UK chief executive, Hodges, announced that he was ...