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Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... price. Family Dollar rose the most of any stock in the Standard & Poor's 500 index. Genzyme rose nearly two per cent after French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis agreed to buy the US biotechnology firm for $20 billion in cash. The deal ended months of haggling ...

Veteran asset consultant to bridge gap: AXA IM

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... consistent with that," he said. He also sees AXA IM succeeding locally by customising products, which evolved from the group's French roots, to suit Australia's regulatory and cultural bent. He compared it to Mars Bars chocolates bearing the same ingredients ...

AMP unveils $6.34 per share bid for AXA

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... proposes to merge AXA's Australian and New Zealand businesses, and divest its Asian business back to AXA SA, the company's French parent and current major shareholder. The deal values AXA APH's Australian and New Zealand businesses at more than $4 billion ...

Bidding time for AMP

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... - and although ANZ have the capacity to get involved, they are yet to express any interest in doing so. And while AXA's French parent AXA SA could still surprise everyone and go it alone, that might be too much of a bite to swallow for the Parisian-based ...

Thousands rally against Sarkozy

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
A French protest rally involving hundreds of thousands of French nationals marched the streets of Paris and beyond in protest to proposed retirement age changes. Thousands marched through over 130 towns and cities in a united protest against President ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... 1929,the S&P declined by 1.3 per cent on average in Septembers. Also, the Wall Street Journal cites finance professor Kenneth French at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business study showing that since 1926, September is "the only month with a negative average ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... banking stocks in the first reaction to European bank stress tests. The DAX was up 27.87 points at 6,194.21 points. PARIS - French stocks rose by 0.81 per cent, also reacting to the banks' stress tests. The CAC 40 index added 29.13 points to 3,636.18 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... average, even after it failed to to hold above a chart retracement on Tuesday. Concerns about the euro zone rose after French bank Credit Agricole pushed back profit targets for its struggling Greek unit Emporiki and said it will take a 400 million euro ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... a key element in resurrecting its economy - in the face of opposition from unions. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on Europe to urgently speed up efforts to regulate financial markets, particularly crack down ...

America's Eyjafjallajokull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... lawsuit could just be just the early tremors of America's version of a soon-to-explode Eyjafjallajokull. British, German and French politicians are urging their respective governments to halt business dealings with the investment bank. According to Bloomberg ...