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Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... the largest falls in overnight trade, due to political reasons including allegations of improper payments to members of Spain's ruling party and instability in Italy. Europe's leading blue chip Stoxx50 index was more than three per cent lower. In the ...

"Others" are still fearful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... S&P 500 index closed 1.2% down last night and Europe gave up more than 3% as Italy's stock market sank by 4.5% and that of Spain by 3.8%. And oh, even Germany, the region's pillar of strength, fell by 2.5%. I would have been more worried if the markets ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... market looks set to open lower following strong falls on US and European markets overnight amid fears of political turmoil in Spain and Italy. At 0630 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was down 32 points at 4,837. In economic ...

Time to fear?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... Asia persist. In Europe, unemployment in Germany fell in January, UK house prices rose in the same month. And get this, Spain reported another surplus in November - the second month in a row - boosted by foreign - portfolio and direct - investment into ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... disappointing results from oil services giant Saipem. Madrid's IBEX 35 index slid 0.82 per cent to 8,571.90 points on news that Spain's growth shrank 0.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2012, as recession tightened its grip on the eurozone's fourth-largest ...

It's happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013

Public pension liabilities add to eurozone debt woes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... much less virtuous if their public pension commitments are taken into account, while the situation of countries such as Spain, Italy, or even Portugal, is relatively better," said the report. Rises in the old-age dependency ratio and unemployment as ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... for the risk that sometime, one day, they might not get their money back. This has happened in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy, etc. But it won't happen in the US. We've seen this too. Remember August 2011? On the fifth of that month, Standard ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013
... steady. However the euro gained against the US dollar as traders reacted to positive bond sales by indebted eurozone nations Spain and Italy. London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies posted a narrow gain of 0.05 per cent to 6,101.51 points. But Frankfurt's ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
... KONG - Asian markets rose as dealers welcomed signs of progress in US fiscal cliff talks and upbeat data from Germany and Spain, while shrugging off news of North Korea's rocket launch. With investors becoming more confident the safe-haven yen came back ...