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Glimmer of hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... sour taste on investors' mouths. The recent update talks of Greece's meeting with the troika of alms-givers - the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The conclusion (for now), their emergency over-the-weekend ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 9.48 points (0.36 per cent) to 2,612.83. Wall Street was firmly in sell mode after European Union finance ministers over the weekend failed to find a convincing way to tackle Greece's sovereign debt crisis. The indexes ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... Evangelos Venizelos has announced new budget cuts totalling around 2 billion euros ($A2.64 billion) as demanded by the European Union and the IMF in exchange for a rescue package for the debt-ridden country. LONDON - Plans for a major shake-up of Britain's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... Europe, consumer and business confidence also slumped in August, the sixth consecutive monthly loss, according to a European Union poll, as the region continues to struggle with its debt crisis. The decline resulted from a "broad-based deterioration ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... they would propose an EU-wide tax on financial transactions and seek to create a eurozone governing body headed by European Union council president Herman van Rompuy. The eurozone had posted meagre 0.2 per cent second quarter growth, dragged down by ...

Super funds hit back at anti-carbon tax groups

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... listed companies on the ASX and directly in hundreds of other Australian companies. The television ads state: "The European Union (EU) has had a price on carbon since 2002. During its first 6-and-a-half years, EU scheme generated $4.9 Billion in tax ...

IFM mandate heats up Poland

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... Polish heating business subsidiary, Dalkia Polska, has landed a stake in the largest district heating network in the European Union. Dalkia Polska holds a portfolio of integrated regulated district heating networks and co-generation plants with regulated ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... being regarded as more risky, so tends to rise when there is good financial news and declines when news is bad. European Union leaders are expected to craft a second rescue package of up to 120 billion euros ($A159.25 billion) for Greece when they gather ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... expectations of slowing growth in the world's second-largest economy and as worries mounted about Europe's debt crisis. European Union officials lashed out at the Moody's ratings agency a day after its downgrade of Portugal, while anxious bond investors ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... default. The $US40 billion ($A38.09 billion) package of cuts is deeply unpopular, but has been demanded by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund as a precondition for further support. Mr Spooner says any signs this package will not be ...