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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... data, with recovery in the crisis-battered region appearing to stall in the second quarter, as the main growth engines, France and Germany, ground to a standstill. Tokyo closed up 0.66 per cent, or 100.94 points, to 15,314.57 on Thursday, Sydney gained ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... second quarters of this year - down by 0.2% in the June quarter and down by 0.1% in the first. So with another biggie. France's real GDP slowed to a full stop (zero growth) in the first quarter - second quarter figures not out yet - after a small 0.2% ...

Treasury Group shares surge on merger news

LAURA MILLAN AND AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... currently holds investments in 13 boutique fund managers with funds under management of $24.2 billion. The group has offices in France, the US and the UK. The transaction remains conditional to shareholder approval, but it is expected to be completed ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... It'll be another ace under his sleeve against the sanctions imposed by the "West". Reasons enough for the United States, France and Russia to mediate to de-escalate tensions between the two countries. Yes, you read that right. Russia is helping the Armenians ...

AXA IM appoints Asia Pacific head

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... appointed Simon Flood to replace Jean-Pierre Leoni as head of its Asia Pacific business. Leoni is returning to his native France after four years in Asia. He will lead AXA IM's client management group. Based in Hong Kong, Flood will be responsible for ...

BetaShares appoints AFR columnist as chief economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... before taking a role as a research economist at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France. BetaShares managing director Alex Vynokur said: "We are excited to have someone of David's calibre join BetaShares in this ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... 3.7% on the day. But big fall were also registered in Madrid (down 2.0%) and Italy (down 1.9%). Even the Germany's DAX and France's CAC indices fell - down 1.5% and 1.3%, respectively. Similarly, Bloomberg reports that, "The cost of insuring senior financial ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... all about weak growth. Bloomberg even had to bring back what IMF managing director Christine Lagarde told her audience in France last Sunday. According to Bloomberg, Mademoiselle Lagarde "signaled a cut in the institution's global expansion forecasts ...

BNP Paribas board approves $9bn fine

AFP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... authorities involved - the Justice Department and New York banking regulator Benjamin Lawsky - will make their own announcement. France's largest bank held a special meeting of its board in Paris at the weekend to discuss a compromise deal negotiated ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... 5,401.6. NEW YORK - The Dow and S&P 500 edged to fresh records with the chances rising for GE's acquisition of parts of France's Alstom and fighting in Iraq lifting oil prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 25.62 (0.15 per cent) on Friday to ...