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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... dozen banks, insurers and investment funds holding Greece's bonds will participate in a massive debt relief plan for the country, the group representing the private creditors said as the deadline for the deal draws near. AMSTERDAM - Dutch populist politician ...

TSCGEMU

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
... didn't like it and lowered Greece's rating to "selective default". Moody's followed suit a few days later and cut the country's credit grade to "C" - its lowest rating level because, "It will be unlikely to be able to sell bonds to private investors ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... HSBC's measure - up to 49.6 from 48.8 - the direction is the same. And from our Japanese friends. Capital spending in the country jumped by 4.9% in the fourth quarter of last year against a drop of 11% in the September quarter and forecasts for a 7.4% ...

Hong Kong the pick for Perennial property

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
Hong Kong is the favoured country for property managers at Perennial Investment Partners this year, on the back of commercial and retail demand. Speaking at the Perennial Invest 12 event in Sydney today, David Kivell, managing director of Perennial ...

Fin services rallies for charity ride

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... surprisingly high number of financial services professional showing a keen interest. "Our rallies have taken us through country NSW, Victoria and Tasmania and we are often asked by locals what we're doing. When we tell them, we are often told that the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... International ratings agency Fitch said it now considered a Greek debt default was "highly likely in the near term" as it cut the country's rock-bottom CCC rating to C, just one notch above the lowest at D. A draft Greek law - part of the rescue implementation ...

ALP leadership issues will delay FOFA: Chikarovski

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... compromise in order for the party and therefore the government to move forward. It's not in the best interests of the country to have a government which is so focused on itself," Chikarovski said. AFA chief Richard Klipin said the organistion would continue ...

Waiting for the midnight hour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... debt. As Tom from Melbourne commented on my interview with SBS last week. "For every borrower there is a lender. So if a country have unsustainable levels of debt were to default, it would mean essentially that the lenders are the ones missing out. Now ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... market looks set to open slightly higher, on hopes Greece will finally secure a massive bailout allowing the debt-crippled country to avoid defaulting on its debts. At 0800 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up two points ...

Dam Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... this by now. But just in case, another 46,300 jobs - the biggest since November 2010 -- were created in this, our "lucky country" last month which took the unemployment rate down to 5.1% (and no you cannot attribute this to the participation rate for ...