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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... bond markets. Italian benchmark 10-year bond yields once again topped the 7.0 per cent red-zone level on Wednesday, with Spain hit too after it had to abandon its 2011 growth target of a very modest 1.3 per cent. Only Germany stood out as a beacon of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... government, the country's 10-year cost of borrowing jumped back above the danger level of 7.0 per cent. Italy, Greece and Spain all paid sharply higher rates to raise fresh funds. Market watchers are waiting for Italy's new leader Mario Monti to appoint ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... on the eurozone debt crisis as Italian, Spanish and French borrowing costs spiked worryingly higher. As Italy, Greece and Spain paid sharply higher rates to raise fresh funds, French stocks fell more than two per cent in early trade, with similar losses ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... markets. Investors appear cautious, tracking Italian and Greek political developments as the eurozone debt crisis rumbles into Spain, whose borrowing costs have risen sharply. At 0805 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was ...

Autumn Angst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... practically running around without a head. The same goes for Greece. It's still trying to find its head. The same goes for Spain... it'll hold elections in less than a forthnight (20 November) to twist someone's arm to head the country. Yes, twist... ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
... days ago. The move renewed fears that Greece could default on its debt and that government debt contagion could spread to Spain and Italy. The Australian dollar had already lost ground on Tuesday afternoon after the Reserve Bank of Australia cut the ...

Derivatives broker MF Global in administration

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... after the losses were reported. As of last week, MF Global had a net exposure of $US6.29 billion in debt issued by Italy, Spain, Belgium, Portugal and Ireland. $US1.37 billion was from Portugal and Ireland. According to the bankruptcy filing, MF Global ...

US unlikely to follow EU short selling ban

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... European banks that have bought EU bonds, follows an earlier ban on short selling of financial stocks in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium. Critics believe this financial stock short selling ban indirectly destroyed confidence in Dexia that lead to the ...

Disagreeing to agree

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... debt by 50% and you'll have all the other PIGIs going wee wee wee all the way home. What would stop Ireland or Portugal or Spain or Italy from asking for the same debt reduction? They'll ask to have what Greece was given. The problem is the longer the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... that EU leaders were close to massively increasing their bailout fund for troubled eurozone economies. But a downgrade of Spain's credit rating tempered the mood and reports the German government is slashing its 2012 growth forecast, in the run up to ...