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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
The market has opened flat despite fresh records on Wall Street on the back of positive congressional testimony by US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen about interest rates. CommSec chief economist Craig James says there were impressive international ...

Grexit not Greek to Brits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
No deal! This is the latest news on the Greek bail out talks, and onwards until the next bluff we go... until the 11th hour when ultimately Greece and its creditors suddenly become lovey-dovey once more holding hands while kicking the can down the road ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... domestic product in Germany expanded by a better-than-expected 0.7 per cent, bringing full-year growth to 1.6 per cent, the German federal statistics office said. LONDON - European stock markets rose, with Germany's main index breaching 11,000 points ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... by his anti-austerity electoral promises, raising worries of a default on 315 billion euros ($A457.02 billion) in debt. German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said she awaited a "sustainable" proposal from Greece that respected the "basic rules" of ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... in New York on Thursday. HONG KONG - Investors seemed to shrug off a clash between Greece's new finance minister and his German counterpart over renegotiating Athens' debt, and a strong rally on Wall Street provided support to most Asian markets. Tokyo ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher following a strong lead from Wall Street on the back of rebounding oil prices. At 0837 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 39 points at 5,794. In local economic news on Friday ...

Economists divided over Europe growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
Is Europe "dead in the water" or is it going to follow the growth trend in the United States in only two years? Economists at the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum expressed different views on the future of the old continent. "They are dead in ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... the day at 6,810.60 points. Frankfurt's DAX 30 index added 0.25 per cent to 10,737.87 points. While official data showing German unemployment fell in January to the lowest level since the country was reunited in 1990, inflation turned negative for the ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... CAC 40 shed 0.29 per cent to 4,610.94 points. However, Frankfurt's DAX 30 index rose 0.78 per cent to 10,710.97 points as German consumer confidence rose to a more than 14-year high. Greek stocks tumbled by 9.2 per cent, with the banks plunging by a ...

CFSGAM completes fundraising for European infrastructure fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) has closed the European Diversified Infrastructure Fund (EDIF) after successfully achieving its fundraising objective of $2.9billion. The fifth and final round of fundraising saw the fund draw in ...