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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... on Wednesday, as investors worried about whether Europe would be able to tackle its debt woes after Fitch Ratings said Britain faced a "formidable" fiscal challenge. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index ended down 98.81 points, or 1.04 per cent, at 9,439.13 ...

Detox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... no tax cuts in the next two years. France plans to freeze public spending from 2011 to 2013. Even non-Eurozone member Britain is planning to go on detox by shrinking its public sector. In short, there is fear that the whole Europe would be weakened by ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... firmer on Tuesday, catching-up on solid US economic data and digesting the announcement of a general election for May 6 in Britain after a long Easter holiday weekend. Dealers said a muted showing on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... benchmark FTSE 100 index closed up 7.64 points, or 0.13 per cent, at 5,710.66 points. But a Standard & Poor's warning that Britain could lose its top credit rating because of its deteriorating public finances highlighted an issue which affects more than ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... The market got a lift Monday after American International Group Inc. agreed to sell its Asian life insurance business to Britain's Prudential PLC for $US35.5 billion ($A39.53 billion). It's the biggest deal yet made by the insurer since it received multiple ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... lost ground on Monday in hesitant trading in the face of strikes under way in France and Germany and in the offing in Britain. The slide in Europe followed a bargain-hunting urge for Asian equities. The London FTSE 100 index shed 6.1 points, by 0.11 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... composite index lower. The market also fell in response to a report from Standard & Poor's that said it no longer considers Britain among the "most stable and low-risk" banking systems. The report drove the US dollar higher as investors sought safety. ...

Damned either way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... another Dow company, pulled stocks lower. The reports overshadowed an increased profit forecast from FedEx Corp. Reports in Britain and Germany signaled that manufacturing remains weak, while Japan's government approved $US81 billion ($A88.86 billion) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... later this week will be good. But gains were limited by losses in banks such as Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group after Britain pressed the G20 to come up with a plan to make banks pay for any future bailouts. The benchmark Nikkei, which began the day ...