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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... dollar, which resumed its surge towards Y110 while the euro struggled after a disappointing survey of business confidence in Germany. Tokyo on Thursday jumped 1.28 per cent, or 206.69 points, at a new seven-year high of 16,374.14 as the yen tumbled ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... investor confidence," said Jasper Lawler, an analyst at CMC Markets UK. Investor sentiment in Europe's biggest economy, Germany, fell for the ninth month in a row in September amid jitters about the economic fallout from global crises, a survey indicated ...

Liberalise economy or prepare for war, warns economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... shrug off geopolitical conflict, that's okay," he said, adding: "But look at the First World War: right up until the day Germany declared war on Russia markets were going along very nicely." Rickards also stressed the limitations of central banks, saying ...

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... "under-utilisation" in the labour market. No sir. Speaking of slack, they may even be expanding in the Eurozone. While Germany's unemployment rate steadied at 6.7% in August from July, the number of Germans out of work increased by 2,000 in the month ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... boost global market sentiment. Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than one per cent overnight, while Germany's DAX 30 and London's FTSE100 were also higher. And he said company results released so far this month had helped lift the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... said Jasper Lawler, a market analyst at CMC Markets. "A planned meeting between Russia and Ukraine mediated by France and Germany has fuelled the perception that the stand-off between the two countries can be diffused." HONG KONG - Asian shares have ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... minister said he would meet his Russian counterpart in Berlin on Sunday for talks alongside the top diplomats from France and Germany. At the market close the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 50.54 points (0.30 per cent) at 16,663.04, after earlier ...

Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... growth decelerated to nothing in the June quarter from 0.2% in the first and 0.3% in the December quarter of last year. Germany's one quarter away from following Italy into another recession with its GDP contracting by 0.2% in the three months ended ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... recovery in the crisis-battered region appearing to stall in the second quarter, as the main growth engines, France and Germany, ground to a standstill. Tokyo closed up 0.66 per cent, or 100.94 points, to 15,314.57 on Thursday, Sydney gained 0.61 per ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... uncertainty it creates over the global outlook grows the longer it goes. And it's already impacting on that other big boy - Germany. Data released last night showed that investor confidence fell to a reading of 8.6 in August - less than half market expectations ...