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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... Industrial production fell 0.1 per cent from November but was 8.0 per cent stronger than in December 2009, the European Union's Eurostat agency said Monday. The December figures were slightly weaker than the market consensus estimate of flat output on ...

ECB relents, sort of

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... for the Germans that its finance ministry even boasted last night that the country's deficit could decline to the European Union's 3 per cent of GDP limit next year. So no "extraordinary" juice... at least for now. Because having tasted blood, bond market ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... IG Markets dealer Chris Weston said the local market had followed a weak lead from Wall Street after details of European Union and International Monetary Fund loans were unveiled in Brussels. Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen said the deal was vital to ...

Confidence will return to Ireland: Govt

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... O'Keeffe. Last month, the Irish government finally caved into its debt pressure and requested assistance from the European Union and IMF to solve its fiscal crisis, and enable it to prop up its ailing banks. News reports note Ireland would receive a,-70 ...

Better than a Thanksgiving turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... go wrong appeared to have gone wrong yesterday. There was shelling in the Korea's. Ireland's acceptance of the European Union/IMF bailout failed to allay investor fears because of the strings attached... around its neck. China is tightening policy and ...

Ireland gives in to EU bailout

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
The Irish government has finally caved into the pressure and requested assistance from the European Union and IMF to solve its fiscal crisis and enable it to prop up its ailing banks. The Guardian newspaper reported that Ireland would receive a,-70 ...

Fed & RBA on the ball

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... order to survive with the euro zone, because if we don't survive with the euro zone we will not survive with the European Union." Hear that? The EU would be no more if Ireland continues to refuse its medicine. For now Ireland continues to sit tight. ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... middle of next year, thank you very much! The Irish government remains adamant in refusing a bail out despite the European Union (and the IMF) practically shoving bail out money down its throat. What to make of all these? Eventually, Dublin would be ...

Support grows for Asia Funds Passport

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... Hong Kong markets. Andrew Wilson, asset management leader, PwC Australia said that Australia can learn from the European Union's 25 years experience in the region, with there already being many similarities between regulatory frameworks between Australian ...

Recycled fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... and the re-ignition of sovereign debt crisis fears. But only if you think that the European Central Bank and the European Union would just sit idly by and watch its members burn. Same as the worry about China, we've been down this path in the middle ...