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Australian shares up on first day of fin year

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... sell-offs. The Greek debt crisis is not yet resolved but hope remains of a resolution with talks with Eurozone finance ministers ongoing. "The broad macro theme for the market is still Greece but we may have reached a settling point where the market ...

An ordinary trading day on D-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... "arrears" not "default". It will consider in "due course" Greece's plea for a repayment extension. Eurozone finance ministers blinked. "The Eurogroup - the finance ministers of the eurozone - rejected the plea, but agreed they would discuss it further ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... made a last-minute effort to extend its bailout hours before its expiry and a possible IMF default. Eurozone finance ministers declined that request, but will continue talks on Wednesday after Athens asked for a new aid plan, officials said. LONDON - ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... Myrto Sokou, senior research analyst at Sucden Financial. European markets had earlier traded lower as eurozone finance ministers were gathering to discuss Greece after a barrage of warnings that the country risks a damaging exit from the euro if it ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... emergency summit on Greece this weekend but any decision will depend on the outcome of a meeting of the Eurogroup finance ministers on Thursday in Luxembourg. But in Athens, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had harsh words for Greece's creditors, saying ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... condition of anonymity. "Time is running out for Greece. To clinch a deal at the 18 June Eurogroup meeting of finance ministers in time for the 30 June expiry of the current bailout deal, the Greek government has to shift its position very soon, that ...

Another thrilla in Athena

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... leaves insufficient time to get the requisite approvals. Any agreement must be approved by the group of eurozone finance ministers, who are scheduled to meet this Thursday. What's more, the deal also requires the blessing of several national parliaments ...

Market set for a fairly flat open

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... 0.79 per cent as the tense stand off between heavily indebted Greece and its creditors hung over a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven nations in Germany. Locally on Friday, HIA releases its new home sales and the Reserve Bank releases ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... meeting focusing on Greece's debt drama, while airlines group IAG neared its takeover of Irish rival Aer Lingus. Finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven (G7) wealthiest nations are meeting in Dresden to discuss the global economy ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... euros ($A1.06 billion) to the International Monetary Fund in time for Tuesday's deadline. However, at a eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels, Greece and other eurozone officials remained far apart on whether the Greek government's reform plans ...