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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... 7,435.21 points, while in Paris the CAC 40 added 0.39 per cent to 3580.48 points. Finance ministers from the 27-member European Union met on Tuesday to discuss policing the banking sector more effectively from September 2013 to prevent another global ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... strong Chinese manufacturing data and an Israel-Gaza truce, while a Greek bailout deal was put on hold ahead of a European Union summit. Investors shrugged off news that Cyprus, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency, will probably need 17 ...

Ten-year future vs. 10-minute tick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... markets continue to react each time Greece goes a-begging - with anxiety. You would think that the great minds of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (and while you're at it include the great minds of expert ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... down 2.77 points, or 0.10 per cent, to 2,902.10. LONDON - European stock markets and the euro treaded water as European Union (EU) ministers meet over Greek debt but are unlikely to release critically needed bailout funds. London's FTSE 100 index of ...

Corporate spending the catalyst for global markets

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... to meet such expectations. "Investors are, on balance, assuming that the world economy will muddle through, that the European monetary union will survive and that central banks will implement more QE as and when required." "To break out of markets trading ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... private client adviser Michael Heffernan said the falls on the Australian market were unsurprising given the drops in European markets on Friday. "It's pretty much as expected given the lacklustre situation in Europe and that commodity prices were down," ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower after European equities fell on Friday, hit by a lack of rapid progress towards full EU banking union at a key summit and Wall Street's Nasdaq was pulled down more than two per cent by a tech stock rout ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... the economy from Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday also provided support, while dealers looked ahead to a European Union summit set to begin later on Thursday. Shanghai rose 1.24 per cent, or 26.07 points, to 2,131.69 while Hong Kong added 0.48 ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... heels of last week's Markit Economics report that, "September saw manufacturing production decline in the US, the European Union and Asia", the latest purchasing managers survey of the service industry shows activity in the sector easing in China - down ...

Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... would they not" guessing came, another one comes along. We played the game last month. Those we bet on to do did. The European Central Bank announced Outright Monetary Transactions. Germany's court found that the EFSF/ESM is in accord with the country's ...