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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... disappointing US housing data. Local investors had not taken much notice of the resignation of the prime minister of Portugal after parliament rejected an austerity plan and pressure rose for Portugal to accept an international financial bailout. "The ...

Capitalism killed Mars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011

Infra asset demand buoy CFS GAM and RARE

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... strong power pricing, predictable cash flows and M&A activity should drive growth in the year ahead. In Europe, Spain, Portugal and Greece are all looking to privatise airports. CFS GAM believes that a 10 per cent pa compound return over the next decade ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... Tokyo, with sentiment hit by fears over Japan's worsening nuclear crisis, Bahrain unrest and a ratings downgrade for Portugal. Aside from Japan, investors remain jittery over Bahrain, where King Hamad has declared a three-month state of emergency in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... eurozone summit in Brussels to discuss bolstering the euro's defences against speculation that weak economies such as Portugal may follow Ireland and Greece into crisis. The Madrid stock market's IBEX-35 index ended the day down 1.17 per cent at 10,435.6 ...

Oil central bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... highest level -- 7.78 per cent - since the country joined the euro at last night's auction. Investors remain convinced that Portugal will eventually be forced to beg for a bail out like Greece and Ireland. But there may be a big surprise coming to a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... shed 0.09 per cent, Brussels slipped 0.28 per cent, Milan dropped 0.39 per cent and Swiss stocks fell 0.99 per cent. Portugal meanwhile sold the maximum intended $US1.0 billion euros ($A992.9 million) of a two-and-a-half-year government bond at an auction ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... mix, Standard & Poor's warned that it would keep its credit ratings on debt-riddled eurozone eurozone pair Greece and Portugal on negative watch, meaning that they are at risk of being downgraded. Before the opening of trading in the United States the ...

Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... governments try to put their budgets back into shape. The Greek economy shrunk by 1.4 per cent in the December quarter while Portugal's contracted by 0.3 per cent in the same period and Spain's inched up by a small 0.2 per cent - but wait till the tax ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... Not to mention, the still punitive interest rates being paid on their borrowings by the governments of Greece, Ireland, Portugal... Surely, these are bound to restrain Europe's economic growth at best or at worst, lead to a double-dip. Double-dip? Did ...