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Missed the bottom?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... no more. Out of sight, out of mind perhaps? After hogging the headlines through all of last week, you now can read about Greece and the terrible things it could do to the Eurozone on page 6. This has been replaced with good news speculations - the fresh ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... Monday closed higher, driven by a gains in resource and finance stocks, as world leaders reaffirmed they wanted beleaguered Greece to remain in the euro zone. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was rose 27.1 points, or 0.67 per cent, to 4,073.6 points, while ...

VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... Or heavens forbid Spain and/or - nay not and/or but and -- Italy. It's the same choice the Eurozone faces. Decide to let Greece stay and it'll have to continually dig deep into its pocket to ensure the country stays afloat. Kick it out and it'll have ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... falls across major bourses with investors concerned over the euro zone and sentiment rocked by a ratings downgrade for Greece and 16 Spanish banks. At 0850 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was down eight points at 4,050. In ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... tumbled and the euro hit a new four-month US dollar low as worries spiked over the eurozone debt crisis that is plaguing Greece and now circling Spain. The newspaper El Mundo reported depositors had withdrawn one billion euros in the recently nationalised ...

Bulls run

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... people withdrew more than a,-1 billion from the bank last week. Yes Virginia, we have contagion. The mere speculation of a Greece exit is breeding speculation of rumours of gossips in Spain. Soon it'll be Ireland, Portugal and Italy. Soon it'll be France. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... points. NEW YORK - US stocks have closed with losses well above one per cent as negative news continued from Europe, with Greece's woes deepening and Spain falling into recession. Strong quarterly earnings from Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer ...

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... cancer. That's where financial markets are at this time - anxiously awaiting news of whether or not the tumour that is Greece has become a cancer that would soon spread and wipe out the rest of the world. The same analogy can also be applied with regards ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... 101.6 points, or 2.35 per cent, to 4,214.7 points. NEW YORK - US stocks gave up early gains as gloom from the eurozone over Greece's woes sparked an afternoon sell-off. At the closing bell the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 32.62 points, or 0.26 ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... itself now that very sword dangling precariously above the heads of world financial markets. Any moment now. Events in Greece over the past few days have jacked up investor fears that soon - really, really soon - Damocles' Sword could go chop, chop ...