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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... Australian stocks have opened firmer in quiet trading conditions as market players wait for the latest developments over Greece and the US budget. At 1031 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 11.4 points, or 0.26 per cent, at 4,435.6 points, while ...

Flip flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... new? Up one day, down the next. Optimism that US will jump over the cliff one day, plunge into it the next. Hopeful that Greece would get another euro cent dropped into its begging bowl one day (and from a broader perspective the euro area will do a ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... lunch in Sydney. In Australia, the market on Monday closed slightly higher as investors waited for movement on addressing Greece's debt and the so-called fiscal cliff of tax hikes and spending cuts in the United States. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ...

Giving thanks to thanksgiving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... same agreement to disagree. But last week financial markets look past that and came to that inevitable conclusion that Greece will be bailed one more time. To be sure, to be sure, given the current fluidity of events and sentiment in the financial markets ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... HONG KONG - Asian markets were mostly up following a rally in the previous session, while dealers await another meeting on Greece's bailout and the resumption of talks on the US fiscal cliff. Trade was subdued on Friday with Japanese markets closed for ...

Abernathy snubs IMF liquidity drivel

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... France and Germany say they will not meet the Basel III capital requirements until 2020, while the enormous bailout of Greece is a thinly veiled means of preventing eurozone banks going under. He says that the IMF report overstates the risk to capital ...

Thank you, xie xie, arigato

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... Chinese manufacturing data indicated the economy continues to pick up, while the euro extended its gains on hopes a deal on Greece's bailout will be agreed. Japanese shares closed at a six-month high as the yen weakened further against the dollar and ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... investors unimpressed following a decision by European finance chiefs to delay a decision on fresh help for debt-laden Greece. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 16.2 points, or 0.37 per cent, at 4,369.5, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

A good new year past the cliff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012