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IMF elects new chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011

Just do it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... on Wall Street overnight, it's probably Nike that did it. Cyber reports speak of the Germans now being in tight with the French and agreeing to swap a big portion of their banks' holdings of maturing Greek debt with longer maturity (30-years) debt. This ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... days as the Greek crisis intensifies. In Germany, Commerzbank gained 4.58 per cent while Deutsche Bank rose 2.18 per cent. French banks Credit Agricole jumped 3.56 per cent, Societe General 3.03 per cent and BNP Paribas 1.93 per cent. HONG KONG - Growing ...

Better second half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... why the EU/ECB/IMF troika and Greece still insist on continuing with this charade. Ok, ok. There was some real good news. French banks agreed to rollover their holdings of Greek debt into 30-year maturities and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... points, or 0.30 per cent, to 1,271.50 points. Markets rallied in early trading, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged swift action on a new Greek rescue package, but momentum faded later in the day. The tech-heavy ...

Back to cactus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... re-ignition of violent protests on the streets of Athens and Moody's warning that it might slash the credit ratings of French banks because of their exposure to Greece. As an aside, I came across a news article the other day reporting that the Greek ...

Alpha aims to lure planners with flexi gearing

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
Alpha Structured Investments has teamed up with French bank Societe Generale (SG) to create a new flexible gearing product, due to be launched to the Australian market later this month. Financial advisers were invited to a soft launch of the Alpha Super ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... products that later turned out to be worth less than junk. European equities also closed higher led by a 1.25 per cent jump in French stocks. Say what? Has the sovereign debt crisis there been resolved? Au contraire, Spain (the big problem child) reportedly ...

Straus-Kahn stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
The GFC has claimed another victim, and it's no other than the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and French presidential candidate-in-waiting Monsieur Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The 62-year old Strauss-Kahn has been arrested on charges of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... sessions of gains, dipping 0.29 percent to 4,096.84 points. In Frankfurt the DAX dropped 0.36 percent to 7,500.7 points. French and German shares had risen on Monday in reaction to the announcement that US commandos had killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin ...