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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... Australian market looks set to open higher following a mixed lead from Wall Street and as investors digested news that debt laden Spain had slipped into recession. At 0800 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 12 points ...

Greece still matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... current stability in the financial markets and the optimism that it engenders could give Greece - and Portugal and Italy and Spain - time to get their houses in order. This is the same hope expressed by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi last ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... politician Geert Wilders has called for a national referendum on abandoning the euro and reintroducing the guilder. BRUSSELS - Spain is hurtling towards an embarrassing test case and possible big fine under new EU rules for a "grave" breach of budget ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... markets closed higher as an EU summit gave the all clear on the latest Greek bailout accord and borrowing costs for Italy and Spain fell sharply. AT 1030 AEDT on the local market more than 450 stocks were higher, 174 were lower and 285 were unchanged ...

Thrilla in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... highest in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland and lowest in Greece and in Portugal." The "unlucky niners" are Belgium, Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Hungary. But for all it's worth, the take-away here is that now, at ...

Waiting for the midnight hour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... 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 ...

All Greeced out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012

Insult me, insult you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... either to cover its entire deficit - even all of its national debt -- or let it go bankrupt. But it's not. There's Portugal, Spain and Italy in the queue. And if they go, the whole of Europa will burn and its embers could scald us all. The not so bad ...

Cheque's not yet in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... even closing on the plus side. And this despite more bad news last night - Moody's downgraded the PITS (Portugal, ITaly and Spain) along with Slovakia, Slovenia and Malta and cut the credit outlook for Britain, France and Austria to negative. What it ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... release full-year results. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed down after Moody's downgrades of debt ratings of Italy, Spain and Portugal and, locally, softer commodity prices dragged the Australian share market almost one per cent lower. The ...