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Fixville here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... fund to a,-1 tril from a,-440 bil. To do this, they intend to tap the IMF and/or sovereign wealth funds and/or the BRICs. French head Sarkozy is reportedly already in negotiations with China - the country with loose change to spare - to drop some coins ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... new funds for Greece and persuading banks to agree to major writedowns in an accord reached after two successive summits. French President Nicholas Sarkozy announced at a summit in Brussels that eurozone leaders had agreed to leverage the 440-billion-euro ...

D-day deferred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... to expect any agreement on the rescue package on the 26 October summit. "Nein" according to the Germans, "non" says the French, "ochi" for the Greeks, "ei" declared the Finns... and so on. Deym, they can't even agree on how to say the word "no". By inference ...

US unlikely to follow EU short selling ban

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... stock short selling ban indirectly destroyed confidence in Dexia that lead to the need for taxpayer-funded bail-out of the French-Belgium bank Dexia. Dexia specialised in lending money to local government authorities. The $A6 billion purchase of Dexia ...

Market Report- Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... September 8, and was still sharply higher in late trade at $US1.3944, up from $US1.3894 Friday. European leaders, including French President Nicolas Sarkozy and IMF chief Christine Lagarde, on Sunday said "good progress" had been made in talks on the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... strategist Stan Shamu said many investors were taking a "wait and see" approach ahead of a second EU summit on Wednesday, with French and German leaders flagging a "global and ambitious answer". "A lot of investors would've been hoping we would have ...

Work in no progress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... is a huge amount of pressure on them to deliver a solution." "Not quite," according to France and Germany. Last night, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a statement advising you, me and Irene to expect no decision ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
... Wednesday and the dollar fell against the yen to 76.88 yen from 77.24 yen on Wednesday. European bank shares plunged after the French finance ministry warned that European lenders exposed to Greek debt will probably face greater losses than those already ...

Ausbil Dexia assures investors following European bailout

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... will provide 60.5%, France 36.5% and Luxembourg 3% of the 90 billion in state guarantees over 10 years. On Monday, the French lower parliament approved of the bailout plan, but it still has to go through the upper house. It's the second time in three ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... the last one to approve it on Friday morning, Australian time. Earlier in the week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to come up with "a lasting, global and quick response to the crisis s before the end of the ...