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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... Thursday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle is due to address the Australian DCM Summit 2012 in Sydney. In equities news, Brickworks, Sigma Pharmaceuticals and Washington H Soul Pattinson (BKW) are expected ...

Better days are getting happier

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
... (1,402.60) to be precise) - the first time since June 2008 - taking it just 163 points shy of the record 1565.15 point summit reached on 9 October 2007. The good news: The US labour market is not only improving, it's gaining momentum. Jobless claims ...

TSCGEMU

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
... that we know. Let's put these credit rating agencies newly developed habit of insinuating themselves whenever there's a summit going on aside and focus on the summit itself. Yes, there was one last week. European Union leaders met at their Council HQ ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
... cent) to 2,976.19. LONDON - European stock markets finished the week on a mixed note while the euro fell following an EU summit on the Greek debt crisis, new rules to control eurozone budgets and massive central bank funding for banks. London's FTSE ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... Greek debt crisis and rallied on Thursday to lead the stockmarket higher. European stock 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 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... could also be fuelling uncertainty. Euro zone debt and an extension of bailout funds were to be key focal points at the summit, he said. "Whenever there's a lack of clarity or a little bit of doubt, this is what will happen: there will be safe-haven ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... without employment? And all the while I thought that the powers that be have learned their lesson. They said so at the summit before last week's summit. They were going for growth. They're going back to Keynes. This was on 30 January 2012. Here's what ...

Enough of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
There's a certain kind of hush all over the world overnight as financial markets turned their attention back to the Greeks and their seemingly never-ending negotiations with their benefactors - the IMF, the EU, the ECB... and private creditors. Ahhh ...

What hard landing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
Hard landing? What hard landing? I told you so Virginia, what China's politburo wants, China's politburo gets. And certainly, they don't want their economy to land hard. PBOC to the rescue. Late last year, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) cut the reserve ...

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 ...