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Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... of the franc was a threat to the economy. On the European sovereign bond market, yields for Italy and Spain fell. The Spanish benchmark 10-year bond slipped under 5 per cent to 4.981 per cent, down from 5.166 per cent, and Italy's 10-year dropped to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... stocks surged with the Swiss Market Index closing up 5.02 per cent at 5,032.75 points, as banking shares led the charge. Spanish share prices closed up 3.56 per cent, regaining some of the huge losses made in the previous eight trading days. Italian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... pounding as worries over the downgrade of US debt outweighed relief at the European Central Bank's purchase of Italian and Spanish bonds to help the two countries avoid devastating defaults. The world's leading financial policymakers said they were ready ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... on the brink of a new economic downturn. Markets were also buoyed by rumours that the European Central Bank was buying Spanish and Italian government bonds, which have been pummelled in recent days as investors fret about the solvency of the two countries. ...

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... triggered by market disappointment that the European Central Bank did not announce a program specifically to support the Spanish and Italian government debt markets. "Bond yields have been pushing up over 6% - an interest rate almost certainly neither ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... focused on the potential of a US downturn and set aside company results from the likes of mining giant Anglo American, Anglo-Spanish airline IAG, pay-tv giant BSkyB and luxury giant PPR. At closing, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top shares dropped ...

You can't handle the truth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... Signor Enria - here's my other foot. If we believe that out of 91 European banks stress-tested, only eight failed. Five Spanish banks, two Greeks (yes, only two) and one Austrian and that they'll need only a,-2.5 billion additional capital if (when?) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... of output by 2014 from 4.6 per cent last year. In Spain banking shares were also the worst hit. But the big news was on Spanish 10-year bonds, where yields rose above six per cent for the first time since 1997. In Paris, all companies comprising the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... points. Other 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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... at the Moody's ratings agency a day after its downgrade of Portugal, while anxious bond investors drove up yields for Spanish and Portuguese government debt. On Wall Street, blue-chip industrial stocks performed well, with Caterpillar and DuPont leading ...