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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... eurozone crisis. European stock markets fell as France and Spain faced a sharp spike in borrowing costs and Germany warned Italy's new prime minister to move fast to avert an even deeper debt crisis. Spain's treasury had to pay a record 6.975 per cent ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... 2,587.99. LONDON - European stock markets fell as France and Spain faced a sharp spike in borrowing costs and Germany warned Italy's new prime minister to move fast to avert an even deeper debt crisis. In London, the FTSE-100 index of top companies closed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... crisis continued to push most European government borrowing costs dangerously higher. Dealers said there was some respite as Italy and Greece put in place new governments committed to tough economic reforms but all eurozone nations bar powerhouse Germany ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... keeping a wary eye on the eurozone debt crisis as Italian, Spanish and French borrowing costs spiked worryingly higher. As Italy's new leader, Mario Monti, launched a final round of talks to form a government, the country's 10-year cost of borrowing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... keeping a wary eye on the eurozone debt crisis as Italian, Spanish and French borrowing costs spiked worryingly higher. As Italy, Greece and Spain paid sharply higher rates to raise fresh funds, French stocks fell more than two per cent in early trade ...

Reverse contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... And yes to you too gentle reader Spud, Europe went haywire again last night - giving weight to your assumption that, "... Italy isn't the end of the euro debacle. France can't be far away and if they go down then no one can tell us how bad things will ...

Russell: ECB needs to come to Italy's rescue

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
It was straight down to business for Italy's new leader Mario Monti yesterday, as the country held its first bond auction since yields pushed past 7% last week, preceeding controversial Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's resignation. Yields at the 3 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... investors have been watching over the last couple of weeks is the situation in Europe," Ms Lee said. "Once again, concerns over Italy's borrowing costs is putting a bit of a dampener on the market." There were about 13 stocks down for every 10 that were ...

Perspective not perplexing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... it, 'twas another down day on Wall Street and in Europe. And yes, you're right it's because of European jitters because Italy's cost of funding remains on the up and up. Scare yourselves all you want but it was a relatively good turnout for Italy's 10-year ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... Australia, the market on Monday closed marginally higher as investors remained cautious despite changes of leadership in Italy and Greece. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 8.1 points, or 0.19 per cent, at 4,304.6, while the broader ...