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Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... index plunged 5.92 per cent to 774.16 points, giving up most of its optimistic eight per cent surge the day before. In Brussels eurozone officials told AFP that at a meeting in Bratislava on Thursday they had war-gamed "worst case" scenarios of Greece ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... 11,332.78 points. In foreign exchange activity, the euro fell to $US1.1230 from $US1.1324 late on Wednesday in New York. In Brussels Thursday Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said differences remained with European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker ...

BOJ in (tactical) retreat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... want this to happen". Frau Angela just backed my supposition. According to Bloomberg, this is what she told reporters in Brussels: "Where there's a will, there's a way. The goal is to keep Greece in the euro area." All we have to do now is kick back ...

Australian market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... having opened with a three per cent drop after Greece and its creditors failed to reach a breakthrough at crunch talks in Brussels late on Wednesday. Milan fell 1.15 per cent and Madrid lost 1.08 per cent. Outside the eurozone, London's benchmark FTSE ...

Who's scared of Grexit or lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... deal! Yes Virginia, this morning's headlines were full of it -- stories that a deal had been struck between Athens and Brussels. Never mind the after-reports that European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis' comment to the contrary. Never mind ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... to the International Monetary Fund in time for Tuesday's deadline. However, at a eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels, Greece and other eurozone officials remained far apart on whether the Greek government's reform plans are enough for the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... European stocks mostly slumped as investors held off while Greece presented its reform plans to its eurozone partners in Brussels in order to secure a further financial lifeline and the ECB started its bond-buying program. London's benchmark FTSE 100 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... closed slightly off as investors awaited the outcome of high-stakes debt talks between Greece and its eurozone partners in Brussels. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index dipped 0.24 per cent to close at 6,857.05 points. Frankfurt's DAX 30 closed 0.37 per ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... Frankfurt's DAX 30 index shed 0.66 per cent to 8,987.80 points. European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi at the EU summit in Brussels said states needed to make efforts to avoid the eurozone relapsing into recession. Germany and France have clashed over ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... bailout framework could serve as a template for other European bank crises. Under the deal reached early on Monday in Brussels, Cyprus agreed to reduce its oversized banking sector and inflict hefty losses on big depositors in troubled banks to secure ...