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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
... markets rose, led by Shanghai and Hong Kong, after the better-than-expected Chinese economic growth data, while a successful French bond sale and gains in European stocks also lent support. However, the eurozone debt cloud continued to hang over trade ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
Miners and energy stocks have added around one per cent to Australian shares after a successful French debt auction and good production results boosted risk appetite. Shares extended early gains driven by a strong sale of French treasury bills overnight ...

Priced in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... France's first foray into the debt market absent one A overnight was successful. Investors bought a,-1.9% billion of one-year French notes and... at a lower yield of 0.406. Sale of three and six-month French government bills also fetched lower yield. ...

Chinalising Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... that Standard & Poor's is about to slash France's AAA credit rating. Although it did not happen overnight, statements by French authorities and the ECB before "the fact" suggests it could (will?) happen. For French President Sarkozy not being triple-A ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... to 3,172.35 points. Milan soared 3.37 per cent and Madrid gained 2.23 per cent. On the eurozone bond market, yields on French, Italian and Spanish debt eased, while those on 10-year German bonds rose slightly. HONG KONG - Asian markets fell on fears ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... 3,095.49 points. Milan plunged 4.29 per cent and Madrid 2.12 per cent. Markets were also spooked by apocalyptic comments from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who warned a deal was needed at the two-day EU summit beginning later in Thursday in Brussels. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
Australian shares are set to fall after German and French officials lowered expectations for a deal to save the euro at this week's European summit. At 0823 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was eight points lower at ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... triple A ratings. The pullback came despite gains in US and European markets and after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said they would push for a rewrite of the European Union's governing rules to tighten economic ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... austerity budget this afternoon. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares gained 0.73 per cent following strong US jobs data and ahead of a French-German mini-summit aimed at thrashing out a plan to save the eurozone. Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index was 139.3 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... would push to give the European Union a new treaty to restore tough budgetary discipline in the debt-ravaged eurozone. The French leader warned the developed world was entering a "new economic cycle" dominated by debt reduction, and thus of tough times ...