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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
... in Paris the CAC 40 slipped 0.13 percent to 3,229.32 points. Milan lost 0.66 percent after an Italian debt auction saw a spike in borrowing costs on six-month bonds and Madrid tumbled 1.29 percent, hit by poor results from Santander, the giant lender. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... tumbled 1.59 per cent to 3,240.29 points. Madrid's benchmark IBEX 35 lost a sharp 3.99 per cent after figures showed an spike in bad loans at Spanish banks and Milan's FTSE Mib index sank 1.71 per cent after the government downgraded its growth forecasts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... Europe. Gains on all three key indices topped 1.3 per cent, with big rises among the Dow blue chips led by a 4.6 per cent spike higher by Caterpillar and a 7.2 per cent rise in Hewlett-Packard shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 181.19 ...

ECT assessments spike on government cap decision

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... was obliged to report versus when the fund accepted and reported contributions - that is absolutely the reason we saw the spike of nearly 300%," Dunn said. In a recent House of Representatives Committee on Economics hearing, CPA Australia expressed concern ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... economic growth would be slow and remain below trend this year? Bring them all out I say and while you're at it, throw in the spike in oil prices resulting from the on-going instability in the Middle East - yes, the one in Syria and the nuclear sabre-rattling ...

Smackdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... better, the expectations component of the index rose to 88.0 this month from 76.7 in January and this in spite of the renewed spike in oil prices - you know, the one which erodes their disposable incomes and makes the goods and services they buy more ...

The martyrdom of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... "Yippe-ki-yay"! For how can you not rejoice? Wall Street's up, Asian equities are up and European equities are up, including a 4.7% spike in the Athex Composite Index. This is a perversion I say, equity markets ex-Greece have every reason to heart Greece ...

Benchmarked inflation protection doesn't stack up

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
Managing inflation spikes through inflation-lined bonds (ILB) is fundamentally flawed, according to one institutional investment manager. "The traditional approach to managing inflation has been to buy an inflation benchmark, which is typically eight ...

Stirrings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
Uh-oh, is it just me or is the fear index starting to stir once more? There must be another summit underway in Europe. There's nothing like the smell of a European summit to scare the bejeesus out of financial markets. The VIX index spiked to a high ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... inflation, rather than help out weaker eurozone states who have flouted the bloc's fiscal rules, analysts said. A sharp spike in Italian borrowing costs added to the negative tone, with the rate on the country's 10-year bonds soaring back above 7.0 per ...