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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... A decline of US jobless claims for a third straight week also boosted sentiment. But eyes remained on a two-day European Union summit under way in Brussels that is set to discuss a potential bailout for Cyprus. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top ...

Latin American pension funds eye PE

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... active investors in the coming years, investment research house Preqin said. Regulations like the Solvency II in the European Union and the Volker Rule in the United States look likely to limit the future private equity investments of some North American ...

Fear is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... austerity only to give in to bond vigilantes. And so it will be for Italy, no matter who's at the helm. If the European Union or the European Central Bank or the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cannot make Italy toe the line on austerity, the bond ...

Serpentine fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... Singapore's "Grand Master" Tan Khoon Yong: "This is a disaster year... a lot of things will not go smoothly...The European Union may split, the euro may be in trouble... the bloc would be threatened by division in May." Hong Kong astrologer Chow Hon-ming ...

Public pension liabilities add to eurozone debt woes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
The size and complexity of European Union public pension liabilities masks the funding needs of member countries, according to new research by the EDHEC-Risk Institute. The institute says that Maastricht treaty debt-to-GDP targets are too simplistic ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... results in European stocks after British Prime Minister announced a referendum on the country's future within the European Union (EU). At 0630 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up nine points at 4,762. David Cameron promised ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... the European Central Bank (ECB) supervisory powers over the banking sector. Sentiment was soothed somewhat as the European Union also cleared long-delayed bailout funds needed to avert a potentially disastrous Greek debt default. London's FTSE 100 index ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... its economic downturn, although recession was likely to continue into the beginning of next year. Data from the European Union's statistics agency Eurostat showed retail sales fell by 1.2 per cent in October from September, the third straight monthly ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... 7,435.21 points, while in Paris the CAC 40 added 0.39 per cent to 3580.48 points. Finance ministers from the 27-member European Union met on Tuesday to discuss policing the banking sector more effectively from September 2013 to prevent another global ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... strong Chinese manufacturing data and an Israel-Gaza truce, while a Greek bailout deal was put on hold ahead of a European Union summit. Investors shrugged off news that Cyprus, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency, will probably need 17 ...