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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... and equity markets for months, with Italy now joining Greece in the emergency room. The cancellation of an EU finance ministers' meeting before Wednesday's summit hiked concerns that the high-level talks will fail to produce a deal to end a crisis that ...

D-day deferred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... Journal, "...a statement from Poland, which currently holds the EU presidency, on Tuesday afternoon confirmed a finance ministers' gathering to settle the final issues on a package of measures ahead of the meeting of the heads of state had been scrapped ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... closed with steep losses after disappointing corporate earnings and reports that a key meeting of European financial ministers had been canceled. Assets that tend to hold their value in a weak economy, like US government debt and gold, rose. Manufacturing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... Sinton said. Hopes were that a three-day European Union summit, beginning on Friday and involving finance and foreign ministers as well as heads of state and government, would agree to beef up Europe's financial rescue facility and recapitalise banks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
... Greek debt will probably face greater losses than those already agreed to. Ahead of a weekend meeting of G20 finance ministers in Paris, France said banks would probably be forced to write off more Greek debt than the 21 per cent proposed in a July eurozone ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... Monday to discuss the next steps needed to restore confidence in the global economy, following discussions by G20 finance ministers in Paris over the weekend. At 1200, resources giant BHP Billiton was 76 cents, or 2.06 per cent higher at $37.62 while ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... there was no respite from the crisis, with Spain's credit rating downgrade underlining the threat to banks. Finance ministers from the G20 bloc of leading economies also pressed Europe to tackle its debt crisis to stave off a global downturn as they ...

Action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011

Rewarding wishful thinking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... co-ordinated approach in Europe while many of the elements are done in the member states. There is a sense of urgency among ministers and we need to move on." "Shared view" my butt. Is CNBC making up stories then when it reported that, "Finance ministers ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... 10,831 contracts traded. US stocks bounced back after a dramatic see-saw session on Tuesday following a report that EU ministers were looking at possible plans to aid weak banks. Down two per cent just 45 minutes before the close, the Dow Jones Industrial ...