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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... per cent, a much bigger advance than the 0.6 per cent rise expected by most analysts. Eurozone leaders were celebrating Slovakia's delayed ratification of new powers to the currency union's EFSF bailout fund, but there was no respite from the crisis ...

Manufactured in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... you a diamond ring..." What's currently happening in Europe reminded me of this lullaby. If you believe the headlines, Slovakia's ratification of the expanded European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) would hush lingering concerns over the euro area's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... eurozone countries have now voted in favour of a revamped bailout fund to help nations that are in financial trouble with Slovakia being the last one to approve it on Friday morning, Australian time. Earlier in the week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... one per cent up on Thursday on a strong lead from Wall Street, better-than-expected US company results and news that Slovakia would be the final eurozone country to vote in favour of an expanded European rescue fund. By 1204 AEDT, both major local indices ...

Happily dreaming of the end

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... (0.98 per cent) to 1,207.25. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite added 21.70 points (0.84 per cent) to 2,604.73, A day after Slovakia blocked an expansion of the eurozone emergency fund in parliament, Slovak political parties agreed Wednesday to hold a new ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... banks? Turns out it's not entirely up to them giants, but to a teenie-weenie euro area member called David, oh sorry, Slovakia. According to Bloomberg, "Slovak lawmakers failed to approve an overhaul of Europe's bailout fund, toppling the government ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... NEW YORK - US stocks drifted to a mixed finish Tuesday ahead of the start of company earnings season and a key vote in Slovakia that could decide the eurozone's rescue fund amid a sovereign debt crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 16.88 points ...

Some hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... eurozone member nations' need to ratify the plan, it's basically a done deal - notwithstanding reports that teenie-weenie Slovakia is playing hard ball - following the German parliament's nod. Now the spotlight is back on Greece where auditors from the ...

Fear is in the air

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... really sure whether most investors would be interested. At any rate, equity markets in Hungary, Romania, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina all gained overnight. Now you see what I mean? But for the markets that matter... ...