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Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... (bad), better-than-expected service sector PMIs today (good) - and the constantly changing verdict about what happens to Greece, Spain, the Eurozone. News out last night was good, the G7 held a telecon and promised to work together to solve the debt ...

Still a guessing game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... consensus had been wrong before. Guess we'll just have to continue guessing until 2:30 PM today. Then it's back to the Greece guessing game.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... recent weeks, as investors kept close watch on Spain, seen by many as most at risk of needing a debt bailout to follow Greece, Ireland and Portugal. A public holiday in London - which will also be closed on Tuesday - made for muted trade. In Frankfurt ...

Eurozone to craft a reforms roadmap

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... European Union and International Monetary Fund bailout deal. Moscovici was responding to questions about comments made by Greece's radical leftist leader Alexis Tsipras who, on Friday, said he wanted to scrap the bailout deal if he won the June 17 elections. ...

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RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
In the new edition of Financial Standard we look at the potential impact of Greece seceding from the EMU and profile Paul Campbell, chief executive of RI Advice. For all the latest news, views and regular features download the app today. Financial Standard's ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... year when the Dow plunged by 3.2% on the 9th because Italian bond yields surged way above bailout territory - 7.48% -- Greece and Spain were about to hold elections and Frau Angie proposed allowing members to exit the eurozone without losing EU membership. ...

Investors missing the eurozone silver lining

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... their domestic macroeconomic outlook than the market appears to believe." Despite all the focus on what's going wrong in Greece, the last panic in September 2011 showed that panic-induced selling can present attractive opportunities, said Michael Hasenstab ...

Down and out in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... basically the exact same fears that we're all fretting about now - some more, some less, but more or less the same. There was Greece, there was double dip, there was China, there was Europe, there was a global slowdown. But for those fortunate - or brave ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... Wall Street and European equities gave back the big gains they made only yesterday - and then some - as fresh polls in Greece show the anti-bailout party has regained the lead. Once again all bets (and risk trades) are off as markets the spectre of contagion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... boost its economy. The euro also set new two-year lows against the dollar as attention turned away from positive news from Greece at the weekend that had provided some lift earlier this week. Tokyo fell 0.28 per cent, or 23.89 points, to 8,633.19, while ...