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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... recovers from its record shock last month. Dealers said investors had a lot of news to deal with - a eurozone rate rise, Portugal seeking a debt bailout, more Middle East unrest - but had coped well for most of the day, finding support in strong US jobs ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... compromise. This time, it won't be different. No worries. There seems to be no worries for the Eurozone too, even after Portugal announced that - dare they say it, it would be seeking EU/IMF financing bail out. What happened to Spain would be next in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... per cent where they have been since May 2009 in an effort to bolster the economy. Dealers said even the situation in Portugal, which looks increasingly likely to have to ask for an international bailout, also seems to have been priced in. In London ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... early trading, following most world markets, after China raised a key lending rate and the rating agency Moody's lowered Portugal's credit rating. A survey from the Institute for Supply Management reported growth at service companies last month but at ...

RBA worries not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... looked, the European sovereign debt crisis still is... in crisis. Just last night, Moody's Investors Service downgraded Portugal's credit rating to BAA1 from A3 and announced that it expected the country to seek external financing. Not good by itself ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... over the country's parliament rejected his austerity package. And before the last month of the last quarter of 2011, Portugal will report that it failed to reach its budget deficit target of 7 per cent of GDP in 2010 and instead record a deficit of 8.6 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... over a deepening eurozone debt crisis offset largely positive US economic data. Dealers said news that both Spain and Portugal are struggling to meet key deficit targets needed to stabilise their public finances stoked fears that the debt crisis which ...

We shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... crisis is back. Last night, Standard & Poors downgraded Greece to BB- vs. BB+ with a negative outlook and downgraded Portugal to BBB- vs. BBB also with the negative outlook remaining. The UK has escaped a downgrade because of its implementation of severe ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... uneven set of economic data with investors carefully watching events in Japan, the Middle East and eurozone struggler Portugal. Dealers said the continuing crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, damaged by the massive March 11 earthquake is ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... stock markets closed firmer Friday on strong US growth figures after a testing week dominated by Middle East unrest, Portugal's debt crisis and Japanese efforts to recover from its devastating earthquake. Dealers said sentiment overall appears to have ...