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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 ...

Ten-year future vs. 10-minute tick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... markets continue to react each time Greece goes a-begging - with anxiety. You would think that the great minds of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (and while you're at it include the great minds of expert ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... down 2.77 points, or 0.10 per cent, to 2,902.10. LONDON - European stock markets and the euro treaded water as European Union (EU) ministers meet over Greek debt but are unlikely to release critically needed bailout funds. London's FTSE 100 index of ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... the economy from Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday also provided support, while dealers looked ahead to a European Union summit set to begin later on Thursday. Shanghai rose 1.24 per cent, or 26.07 points, to 2,131.69 while Hong Kong added 0.48 ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... heels of last week's Markit Economics report that, "September saw manufacturing production decline in the US, the European Union and Asia", the latest purchasing managers survey of the service industry shows activity in the sector easing in China - down ...