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She's becoming right, mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... posted a 7.1% increase. Still, these were no match for the double-digit gains recorded in the bourses of Italy (+11.0%), France (10.8%), Germany (+10.7%), and Spain (10.2%). Looks like our mythological Sisyphus has rolled the boulder up that mountain ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... that the eurozone was already taking steps to create a fiscal union. President Nicolas Sarkozy declared on Thursday that France and Germany would push to give the European Union a new treaty to restore tough budgetary discipline in the debt-ravaged eurozone. ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... 7.0%. Still in the old country, La Tribune reports of speculation that Standard & Poor's could downgrade the outlook for France's AAA rating, before an actual downgrade. Moody's too was on warning mood. It placed the subordinated debt of 87 EU banks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... after a failed German bond auction on Wednesday shook confidence in the safe haven status of Europe's biggest economy. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy wanted German Chancellor Angela Merkel to drop her refusal to allow the European Central Bank (ECB) ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... Average fell 53.59 points, or 0.46 per cent, to 11,493.7. Markets are feeling pressure on several fronts. European powers France and Germany are miles apart over allowing the European Central Bank to rescue the eurozone from a debt crisis threatening ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... European bourses as the region's leaders met to try to resolve the relentless debt crisis now threatening big nations such as France. At 0800 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 24 points at 4,128. In economic ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... Street as investors fretted over worries about the level of US government debt, and news of a possible ratings downgrade for France. IG Markets analyst Cameron Peacock said the offshore reaction to overnight developments was perhaps an overreaction. ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... The Popular Party won government at last Sunday's election, winning 186 seats of the 350-seat parliament. Moody's warned France... again. While it noted that the country's AAA-rating is not under pressure "at this stage", rising bond yields and weaker ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... extend stimulus measures into next year. London's FTSE-100 gave up 2.62 per cent, Frankfurt's DAX lost 3.35 per cent and France's CAC-40 dropped 3.41 per cent. Meanwhile, Spanish government borrowing costs rose, with the yield or rate of return earned ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... $1.3515 from $1.3457 in New York late Thursday. European shares have fallen sharply this week as Italy, Spain and even France faced a sharp spike in borrowing costs, in a dangerous new phase as the debt crisis showed new signs of spreading. The yield ...