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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... country's austerity measures helped ease those fears. Investors also felt some relief after a meeting of 17 European finance ministers on Monday resulted in a statement that implied they were open to buying distressed Greek bonds. LONDON - European shares ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... a deeply unpopular package of austerity cuts needed to satisfy the International Monetary Fund and eurozone finance ministers. The Dow has risen for four straight days amid optimism that Europe and the IMF will succeed in their plan to prevent a Greek ...

European authorities will blink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... financial markets yesterday when news spread that the seven-hour Greek problem-solving marathon of European finance ministers produced a "too hard, we'll try again next month" conclusion. For the life of me, I don't understand why these moneymen of Europe ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... expected. In Europe, protests swelled in Greece over the government's austerity measures. On Tuesday, eurozone finance ministers failed to reach accord at talks on a second bailout package to avert a Greek debt default. The US stock markets appeared ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... said the minutes didn't seem to support the case for an imminent cash rate rise. Overnight (AEST), European finance ministers backed an EU-IMF bailout of Portugal worth 78 billion euros ($A104.45 billion). With Greece's debt woes still unresolved, Ms ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... that the arrest of IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Khan could hit efforts to tame the eurozone debt crisis, as EU finance ministers met to discuss rescues for Portugal and Greece. While Europe's main indices initially dropped sharply on the news, as the day ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... the equities markets amid speculation that Athens will need an additional bailout. Eurozone and European Union finance ministers are expected to discuss Greece at meetings on Monday and Tuesday. Most sectors on the ASX were in negative territory in early ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... the equities markets amid speculation that Athens will need an additional bailout. Eurozone and European Union finance ministers are expected to discuss Greece at meetings on Monday and Tuesday. The Labor Department reported its consumer price index ...

Ministers backed to raise super contribution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... Christian Super is supporting the decision by the Baptist Union of NSW and ACT to raise the superannuation levy for Ministers of Religion from 9 per cent to 11 per cent. There have been concerns that due to unique taxation arrangements to help churches ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... added a mere 0.03 per cent. In the red were the Swiss market and Amsterdam, both down 0.12 per cent. European finance ministers meeting in Hungary agreed that indebted Portugal should be given a bailout of some 80 billion euros ($A109.56 billion), which ...