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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... outcome of the Greek debt crisis. Macquarie Private Wealth division director Lucinda Chan, said lacklustre demand for Italian bonds at an auction on Tuesday was indicative of the mood of the market. "There's no real conviction in the market at the moment. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... wildly amid unsubstantiated rumours that Germany and France had a new plan for Greece and that China was in talks to buy Italian bonds. In foreign exchange trade, the euro ended down slightly against the US dollar at $1.3674 from $1.3680 on Monday. The ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... Germany's DAX dropped 2.27 per cent and London's FTSE-100 lost 1.63 per cent. But a report in London's Financial Times that Italian officials had held talks with China over a potential purchase of Italian bonds caused US stocks to erase their losses ...

Damned to default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
Seen on Bloomberg this morning: "Greece Default Risk Jumps to 98%" (over the next five years). Duh! I don't know what financial markets have been smoking but as far I'm concerned Greek's been cactus ever since it's debt-to-GDP ratio hit 140% and real ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... bond issue but paid much lower rates that at the last similar sale in July, indicating an easing in investor jitters over Italian debt. Sentiment had been bolstered by news of a Greek merger between Alpha Bank and Eurobank, with a sizable Qatari investment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... Spanish share prices closed up 3.56 per cent, regaining some of the huge losses made in the previous eight trading days. Italian stocks closed 4.1 per cent higher at the end of a highly volatile session that saw the benchmark FTSE Mib index in Milan ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... another pounding as worries over the downgrade of US debt outweighed relief at the European Central Bank's purchase of Italian and Spanish bonds to help the two countries avoid devastating defaults. The world's leading financial policymakers said they ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... of a new economic downturn. Markets were also buoyed by rumours that the European Central Bank was buying Spanish and Italian government bonds, which have been pummelled in recent days as investors fret about the solvency of the two countries. LONDON ...

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... market disappointment that the European Central Bank did not announce a program specifically to support the Spanish and Italian government debt markets. "Bond yields have been pushing up over 6% - an interest rate almost certainly neither government ...

Rates rise in Italy while Cypriot pension funds withdraw cash

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
Troubles have again surfaced in the Eurozone with markets concerned over Italian public debt and Cypriot pension funds withdrawing cash from banks exposed to the Greek sovereign debt crisis. The yield on 10-year Italian BTP bonds has risen to 6.26 per ...