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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... stocks fell after a key economic indicator pointed to more growth troubles for the euro zone and political developments in France and the Netherlands suggested diminishing support for using drastic budget cuts to fix the debt crisis. Mr Smith said he ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... stocks fell after a key economic indicator pointed to more growth troubles for the eurozone and political developments in France and the Netherlands suggested diminishing support for using drastic budget cuts to fix the debt crisis. A survey of the eurozone's ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... America and Morgan Stanley topped earnings estimates but IBM, Intel and Qualcomm fell short of expectations. Spain and France's debt auctions met with solid demand but yields on their new issuances rose. German business confidence grew by more than expected ...

It's all in the spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... saw yields on Spanish 10-year bonds rise to 5.743%, -- up from 5.403% at the last auction in January - while the yield on France's 5-year paper increased to 1.83% from 1.78% it paid last month. It seems like a dive all right. Two of Europe's big economies ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... although it's still up 5.7 per cent for the year. Declining stocks outnumbered advancing shares 3-to-1. Stock indexes in France and Germany fell more than 2.4 per cent. Spain's main stock index fell more than three per cent and is now down 15 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... led the fall, the broad sector losing 1.3 per cent, as oil prices dropped on signs of possible weaker US consumption and France's comments that it might release some of its strategic oil stocks to help moderate the market, after reports that the US and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... means of shipping packages. LONDON - World oil prices have tumbled in reaction to weak Chinese economic data and after France said industrialised countries were considering the release of crude stockpiles, analysts say. NEW YORK - US stock markets have ...

Waiting for the midnight hour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... at all" until before the next refunding, that is. And based on the schedule compiled by Goldman Sachs, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Ireland and Portugal will have maturing bonds and t-bills amounting to about a,-1.05 trillion this year. Here's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... British shares closed 0.7 per cent higher at 5,945.25 while Germany's DAX rose 1.5 per cent to 6,948.25. The CAC-40 in France rose 1.0 per cent to 3,472.54. The euro was 0.4 per cent higher at $US1.3257. HONG KONG - Most Asian markets closed higher ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... leading British shares closed 0.1 per cent lower at 5,885.23 while Germany's DAX fell 0.2 per cent to 6,745.28. The CAC-40 in France ended flat at 3,391.29. The euro was 0.1 per cent higher at $US1.3077, having dipped below the $US1.30 mark earlier. ...