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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... took a sharp plunge on Thursday amid concerns over feared contagion in the eurozone crisis. European stock markets fell as France and Spain faced a sharp spike in borrowing costs and Germany warned Italy's new prime minister to move fast to avert an ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... 1,216.13, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite lost 51.62 (1.96 per cent) to 2,587.99. LONDON - European stock markets fell as France and Spain faced a sharp spike in borrowing costs and Germany warned Italy's new prime minister to move fast to avert ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... as unsustainable for the country to service its debt while Spanish 10-year government bonds rose to 6.341 per cent. Even France was punished, with its 10-year bonds at 3.683 per cent, more than twice as much as regional economic powerhouse Germany must ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... Italy in succumbing to eurozone financial instability. The critically important gap between the rates paid by Germany and France, the two pit props holding up the eurozone, widened to a record 191 basis points or 1.91 percentage points in late afternoon ...

Reverse contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... Europe went haywire again last night - giving weight to your assumption that, "... Italy isn't the end of the euro debacle. France can't be far away and if they go down then no one can tell us how bad things will get. Not just in europe. If France falls ...

Weekend worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... hanging and guessing about what lies ahead the Monday after. Consider this: We spent the 22-23 October weekend worrying over France and Germany's negotiation over their disagreement on how to leverage the EFSF. They shook hands and markets were happy ...

European DC Pension market to hit A$3.7tr by 2015

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... beyond pension funds into other savings vehicles that offer tax advantages, such as the plan d'epargne actions (PEA) in France or the investment savings account (ISA) in the United Kingdom, and fund managers need to enlarge their thinking accordingly," ...

Hero to Zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... We're practicing that democracy by letting the Greek people decide! (not his words, mine). Prime accord movers Germany and France were certainly miffed and they made it known in no uncertain terms - and so did the financial markets. No one really expects ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... backdrop of Greece in turmoil over its latest bailout package and rising borrowing costs for eurozone governments, including France, meant the move got a tremendous welcome on the markets which had been hoping for help from the G20 summit in Cannes ...

Shape up or ship out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
Germany and France has called Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's all-in "referendum" gambit. Monsieur Sarkozy and Fraulein Merkel suspended the disbursement of the a,-8 billion rescue tranche until Greece makes up its mind to stay in the Eurozone ...