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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... points, to 2,427.48. But Tokyo closed down 0.16 per cent, or 13.84 points, at 8,748.47. The uncertainty in the European Union has weighed on global commodity and equity markets for months, with Italy now joining Greece in the emergency room. The cancellation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... officials said key parts of the package may not be ready in time for a leaders' summit on Wednesday. A meeting of European Union finance ministers, which was to be held just before the summit, has been called off. A summit of EU and eurozone leaders ...

US unlikely to follow EU short selling ban

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... sovereign bonds but in the US the Securities Exchange Commission said it is unlikely to follow suit. Last week the European Union announced a ban on naked short selling of EU sovereign bonds where investors use credit default swaps to take positions ...

Party in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... agreement is nigh! That, at least, is the conclusion one could derive if one had one's ear pressed closed to the European Union meeting in Brussels. There really was nothing fresh about the fresh reports that littered cyberspace after the 23 October ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... contracts traded. The local bourse opened higher after mixed overnight leads with global investors waiting for European Union nations come up with a solution for tackling the eurozone debt. IG Market market strategist Stan Shamu said many investors were ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... pretty different story than actually passing it through the populace," Mr Sinton said. Hopes were that a three-day European Union summit, beginning on Friday and involving finance and foreign ministers as well as heads of state and government, would ...

Disagreeing to agree

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... markets don't know where to jump because European powers-that-be can't agree on where they're taking us. Last Sunday, European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn told us that they are close to an agreement and all will be revealed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... had agreed to more than quadruple the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) bailout fund. Citing unnamed European Union diplomats, The Guardian said the eurozone's two biggest economies would boost the rescue fund to two trillion euros ($A2.69 ...

Sounds like a plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... like a plan. The bad news - the problem has been kicked down the road to this coming weekend (23 October) at the European Union summit in Brussels. The weekend that, according to UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, "is the moment people are ...

Manufactured in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... diamond ring (bank recapitalisation?). Papa may do so after the G20 meeting this weekend or after the 23 October European Union Summit or after the 3-4 November G20 Cannes Summit. "... and if that diamond ring turns brass..." But it wasn't all about ...