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Market to open flat

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... remaining bailout funds with a huge debt repayments to the IMF due at the end of the month. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has warned that if no deal is reached it would lead to the collapse of the eurozone. "European stocks are once again heading ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... with the IMF have been going nowhere due to sticking points such as pension cuts," he added. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Sunday attacked the country's creditors for insisting on what he described as absurd reforms which have only held up progress ...

Breathing space or gasping room?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... weekend passed. "Plus ASa change..." We won! We won! In a televised statement last Saturday, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared, "Yesterday we took a decisive step, leaving austerity, the bailouts and the troika behind." Really Alexis? Not ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... better-than-expected 0.7 per cent, bringing full-year growth to 1.6 per cent, official figures showed. Greece's new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras edged closer to securing a massive revamp of its huge bailout after making his case to sceptical EU leaders ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
... remains as leaders warn that much is needed to be done before peace is achieved. Meanwhile, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem have agreed to renew efforts to resolve a bitter row over extending Greece's current ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
The share market has opened lower amid fears of a Greek debt default. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's vow to stand by his anti-austerity electoral promises are denting global equity markets but locally, the mining giants and consumer discretionary ...

Tsipras has a dream

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... again the word. Greece may have a fresh face holding the begging bowl to the IMF/ECB/EU troika in Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras but it's the same old, same old game of chickens. Tsipras begsA "please sir, may I have some more" money while at the same ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... futures contract was down seven points at 5,753. In a rousing policy speech to parliament, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras refused to apply for an extension for an international bailout, raising the prospects that the country could quit the eurozone. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... day. The Athens stock market had plunged over 9 per cent on Wednesday after Greece's new hard-left Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras scrapped key privatisation projects and pressed home his demand for a renegotiated deal on the country's multi-billion-euro ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... 6,852.40 points. However the main stocks index in Athens dived 3.2 per cent after Syriza and its 40-year-old leader Alexis Tsipras won 149 seats in the 300-seat Greek parliament, just two short of an absolute majority, with most votes counted. But there ...