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Go-it-alone investment culture taking hold in Europe

MARK SMITH | THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015

... channels in the rest of the continent. Roughly half of asset managers said their market share will grow in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Sweden. The rest said market share will stay roughly the same and only a tiny minority think it will fall. Angelos ...

China millennials dictate future of emerging-market investment

ALEX BURKE | WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015

... this new spending class is fostering growth in Korean luxury goods - as opposed to goods manufactured in, say, France or Italy, which are popular with older Chinese consumers - due to an interest in Korean popular culture and fashion. "Duty-free business ...

Breathing space or gasping room?

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015

... Tsipras, in the other hand, promised the Greeks no more austerity. Unlike the 2013 episode, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy's bond yields no longer follow the ups and downs of that of Greece's. The yield on Portugal's 10-year government bonds has ...

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 ...

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BT appoints new head of strategy

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ASX sees trade volumes soar in May

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