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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... back by a stalemate in Washington over raising the country's borrowing limit. LONDON - European stocks slumped after the Italian government's borrowing costs surged in a bond auction that rekindled worries about the spread of the debt crisis in the bloc ...

Goodnight Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... over 600 billion euros -- would not be able to fund even half that. No sir! European authorities didn't contemplate an Italian default when they cobbled the euros together. Despite the exaggerated 'scary' headlines of the past three days, bond markets ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... and losses for most of the day amid worries that Italy would need help managing its debts. A successful auction of new Italian government bonds and a promise to fast-track that country's austerity measures helped ease those fears. Investors also felt ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... shares suffered the sharpest falls. Investor concern rose further after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had told Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to ensure Italy's parliament approved an austerity budget to send "a very important signal" ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... European markets were firmer, but Madrid and Milan slipped, reflecting investor nervousness over the state of Spanish and Italian public finances. HONG KONG - Asian stocks were mixed following China's fifth interest rate rise in eight months, while Tokyo ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... other European markets were higher but Milan lost 0.20 per cent and Madrid 0.23 per cent, reflecting nerves there over Italian and Spanish debt levels in light of the S&P statement on Greece. S&P said that in effect, the plan would see creditors disadvantaged ...

Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... going to infect other parts of Europe. Markets dropped after a warning at the back end of last week from Moody's over Italian banks' creditworthiness, with the ratings agency saying it was mulling downgrades across the sector. The renewed fears sent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... European markets were mixed on Friday, with traders largely still nervous of eurozone developments with doubts on the Italian banking sector helping push down the euro. European leaders approved the latest tranche in the year-old rescue fund - contingent ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... have to cause the fall in the first place. Somewhere on blogosphere there was an item mentioning Moody's downgrade of Italian banks because it may cut the Italian government's sovereign debt rating. And so we come full circle to the lingering Greek tragedy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... for Italy's Parmalat to create the sector's top company. Lactalis already owns 29 per cent of Parmalat and a group of Italian companies has been scrambling to block the takeover amid nationalist sentiment and fears over the French company's dominant ...