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Instos urged to grab sovereign debt chance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... barrier between emerging markets and developed markets. I'd certainly be as happy to lend to Korea as I would France or Italy. "Then if you want to invest in that in a pretty passive way or you think you want to hire a very skilled manager to invest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... points. The euro rose to $1.3708 from $1.3682 late on Tuesday. The dollar fell to 76.69 yen from 76.88 on Tuesday. Stocks in Italy and Spain, the eurozone's third and fourth-largest economies who have come under pressure in the debt markets, both closed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... Societe Generale climbed nearly 15.0 per cent, and BNP Paribas was up 7.20 per cent after earlier dropping 10 per cent. Italy on Tuesday placed bonds worth close to 6.5 billion euros ($8.8 billion) but the yield it had to offer reached a new high level ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... controversial program of buying government bonds of deeply indebted eurozone countries like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy. "The markets are falling sharply because there is a lot of fear that there might be a European sovereign debt situation ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... euro, saying the high value of the franc was a threat to the economy. On the European sovereign bond market, yields for Italy and Spain fell. The Spanish benchmark 10-year bond slipped under 5 per cent to 4.981 per cent, down from 5.166 per cent, and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... setting a target "peg" exchange rate against the euro. Athens raised short-term funds at reduced rates, but Greece and also Italy are at the centre of renewed tension over the eurozone debt crisis. The euro slid to $US1.4010 from $US1.4098 late on Monday. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... stocks 4.04 per cent, Brussels 4.61 per cent, Madrid 4.69 per cent, and Milan 4.83 per cent. Bonds issued by Greece and Italy fell, and the cost of insuring against default by Italy and France, as indicated by the market for credit default swap (CDS) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... while anything above suggests expansion. Only Germany, the Netherlands and Austria posted manufacturing growth, with France, Italy and Spain slumping into negative territory. British manufacturing tumbled to a 26-month low of 49.0 points in August, although ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... down from $1.4510 on Monday. At the same time, euro losses were limited by news of a successful government debt auction in Italy. Italy on Tuesday raised 7.7 billion euros ($A10.5 billion) via a bond issue but paid much lower rates that at the last similar ...

Bonds, where the real money is

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... private sector and onto the public sector balance sheet. Behind the US is Japan's $13 trillion bond market, with France, Italy and China each with about $3 trillion in bonds on issue. It's this pecking order that explains why, when S&P downgraded US ...