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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... favoured the company's proposal to take over Alstom's energy assets for $US16.8 billion ($A18.18 billion) over a rival bid by Germany's Siemens and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. As part of the deal, France will take a dominant 20 per cent stake ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... favoured the company's proposal to take over Alstom's energy assets for $US16.8 billion ($A18.18 billion) over a rival bid by Germany's Siemens and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. As part of the deal, France will take a dominant 20 per cent stake ...

Crime pays: Why new European GDP rules are causing a stir

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... for Czech Republic, Estonia, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain; 2%-3% for Belgium, Denmark, Germany and France; 3%-4% for Austria, Netherlands and the UK and 4%-5% Finland and Sweden.

Australia among the big guns in millionaire stakes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... Rounding out the top five were the UK and Switzerland. The other countries ahead of Australia in descending order were Germany, Canada, Taiwan, Italy, France, Hong Kong, the Netherlands and Russia. The total number of millionaire households reached 16.3 ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... unemployment at 53.9%) and Greece (26.5% overall with youth unemployment at 56.9%). This would become a problem for even mighty Germany - with an overall unemployment rate of 5.2% and youth joblessness of 7.8% -- because labour mobility is one of the ...

Fresh Orient Capital acquisitions expand European operations

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... financial record keeping company Link Group. The acquisitions expand Orient's global footprint in key European markets such as Germany, Russia, Spain and Italy, adding to its existing capabilities in the UK and France. Formerly known as Capital Precision ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... enough to reverse the developing deflationary risk in the region. More so, because the country breakdown shows that while Germany and Spain's growth pace doubled in the first quarter from the previous one, the French economy produced zero growth while ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... crisis in Ukraine continued to cloud sentiment. London's FTSE 100 lost 0.36 per cent to close at 6,814.57 points, while Germany's DAX 30 slid 0.27 per cent to 9,581.45 points and the CAC 40 in Paris dropped 0.66 per cent to 4,477.28 points. Madrid gave ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... comfortable with acting next time". London's FTSE 100 index of top companies rallied 0.63 per cent to close at 6,839.25 points. Germany's DAX 30 jumped 0.90 per cent to finish at 9,607.40 points and the CAC-40 in Paris leapt 1.37 per cent to end the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... Ukraine crisis clouded sentiment, dealers said. London's FTSE 100 slid 0.35 per cent to close at 6,798.56 points, while Germany's DAX 30 lost 0.65 per cent to 9,467.53 points and the CAC 40 in Paris dropped 0.78 per cent to 4,428.07 points. "European ...