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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
... rallied in thin trading as traders returned to their desks after the Easter holiday to digest the latest developments on the Cyprus debt crisis. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading companies rose 1.23 per cent to 6490.66 points on Tuesday, while ...

Frightened eurozone savers to buy Aussie dollars

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
The harsh treatment of Cyprus in the latest chapter of the eurozone crisis has set a dangerous precedent, according to Clime Asset Management's John Abernathy. Despite bureaucrats insistence that the 'haircut', which could see wealthy depositors losing ...

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... elections (it still is) and comeback bunga bunga boy Berlusconi; China's property curbs (it's still at it); and of course, Cyprus. Yet by 5 March, the Dow has climbed up and over its 2007 peak and right at the final day of trading of Q1 2013, the S&P ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... start on the local market, Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said investors were taking the ongoing turmoil in Cyprus and stalemate in Italy in their stride. Financial stocks were the worst-performing sector at the open, having fallen 0.84 ...

Cypriot banks to re-open sans banking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... like, But you can never leave!" - Hotel California (Eagles) Tonight at exactly 2100 hours (9pm) Aussie time, banks all over Cyprus will re-open and from what I read, it's not like Hotel California. You cannot check out anytime you like - heck, you wouldn't ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... up four points, or 0.08 per cent, at 4,980.8 points. NEW YORK - US stocks have closed firmly higher amid hopes that the Cyprus banking crisis will be resolved this weekend. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 90.54 points (0.63 per cent) at ...

Asian bonds insulated from Cyprus turmoil

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... many reasons for choosing Asia over developed world bond markets. "While we are seeing some noise in bond markets from the Cyprus bailout talks, the impact on Asian bonds has been far less marked," she said. Chan added that diversity of the Asian bond ...

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... before the Cypriot saga - strengthening...but very slowly. My take: it's plain and simple relief buying -- relief over Cyprus' bail-in and Mynheer Dijsselbloem's retraction of his "template" remark (he swears he didn't say it) -- and fear of missing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... up four points, or 0.08 per cent, at 4,980.8 points. NEW YORK - US stocks have closed firmly higher amid hopes that the Cyprus banking crisis will be resolved this weekend. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 90.54 points (0.63 per cent) at ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
The Australian share market has opened lower over renewed jitters about the euro zone, following a bailout deal for Cyprus. IG Markets market strategist Stan Shamu said the Australian market had opened in a pretty sombre mood. Markets overseas had initially ...