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Italy's bond market collapse puts US back in favour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... the world's second biggest, or moving down the league table to petro-dollar economy bond markets, into smaller European country markets or Asia. These dynamics imply Asia could be big secondary winners notwithstanding that region's inflation worries. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... 32.24 points, or 1.2 per cent, to 2,727.49. Italy became a key focus for investors this week after doubts emerged that the country would go through with a tough package of austerity measures. Many investors saw Berlusconi as an obstacle to sweeping economic ...

Value has its risks in emerging markets

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... discriminating in assessing economic and company fundamentals. However, as the cycle turns investors become more attentive and country markets and stock price performances diverge. "It is becoming apparent to many investors that country and stock selection ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... weekend, political leaders in Greece sealed a historic deal to form a national unity government to haul the debt-wracked country, and the eurozone, back from the brink of disaster. Financial stocks and energy linked companies were among the worst-performing ...

Hero to Zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... be a 12% hole and recently, Papandreou's referendum/no referendum backflip? And then there's Evangelos Venizelos, the country's finance minister and reportedly in the running to become PM. He backflipped on the referendum too - first saying he supported ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... 30 tumbled 2.72 per cent to 5966.16 points. Milan, put in the firing line as the IMF and EU said they would monitor the country's economic reform efforts to ensure Rome honoured its commitments, lost 2.66 per cent and Madrid shed 1.33 per cent. The euro ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... notch up its biggest one-day rise in four weeks at noon amid hopes that a looming confidence vote in Greece will start the country's economic recovery. Global markets also rallied on news of an interest cut by the European Central Bank (ECB). At 1219 ...

Union members an industry fund minority

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... funds. The Qantas industrial dispute has ignited interest in Australia's industrial laws, unionisation and whether the country is entering a period of stepped up industrial action, notwithstanding that there is no actual evidence the level of industrial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi under intense pressure to come up with reforms and austerity measures to ease the country's strained public finances. The yield on Italian 10-year government bonds at one stage hit 6.402 per cent, topping the 6.397 ...

Shape up or ship out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... people." Papandreou was being too clever by half. He doesn't want to take the heat just in case things turn nasty for his country. According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, "Papandreou reasoned that the way to win the grudging support of the Greek people ...