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Hope trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
... trading. Wow! But if you think that's good. The Continent's performance was great! Germany's Dax index rallied by 5.3%, France's CAC-40 index by 5.74%, Finland's OMX Helsinki index by 5.1% and Italy's MIB by 4.9%. For greater emphasis, how about the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... Daghlian said falls on the Australian market could have been worse, considering negative overnight offshore leads, with France faring the worst as financial stocks dragged it 5.25 per cent lower. Driving the moribund investor sentiment was concern about ...

Instos urged to grab sovereign debt chance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... artificial 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 ...

Dangerous currents

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... the risk of European growth falling below the zero line are great. Recall the sharp growth deceleration in Germany and France in the second quarter. German GDP barely grew - at 0.1% -- in the June quarter from 1.3% in the first while the French economy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... banks, deserted by their usual sources of finance, had thrown a black cloud over some top banking names, especially in France, and added yet another hardship to investors that also face a global slowdown. At close, Paris' CAC-40 index rose 3.27 per cent ...

Asian counterweight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... spokesman Elias Mossialos' announcement to the world after the teleconference between his leader and the heads of Germany and France. According to the statement released after the conference call, Fraulein Merkel and Monsieur Sarkozy "emphasised that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rallied 40.40 points (1.60 per cent) to 2,572.55. Talks between the leaders of Germany, France and debt-ridden Greece, as well as comments by European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso about the need for unified "eurobonds," ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... A late rally capped off a rollercoaster day as investors hoped that talks on Wednesday between the leaders of Germany, France and Greece would help rein in the financial turmoil emanating from the eurozone. On Wall Street, industrials and tech companies ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... analyst with City Index said. "Overall, we sold off a lot more yesterday than European counterparts - with the exception of France - so it is quite a disappointing open." Wall Street's major indices staged a late-session rally after following European ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... down the yields on 10-year bonds issued by Germany and the United States to historic low levels. Borrowing prices fell for France as well. Greece announced on Sunday 2 billion euros ($A2.62 billion) in budget cuts demanded by the EU and the IMF to unlock ...