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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... Friday evening, driven by a recovery in European equity markets. European markets rallied on Friday after France, Belgium, Spain and Italy banned the speculative practice of short-selling stocks to combat "false rumours" that have destabilised them. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... swung violently between losses and gains on rumours about France's fiscal strength and potential debt defaults by Italy and Spain. The 30 Dow blue-chips were all higher, led by a 16 per cent jump from Cisco Systems, which reported higher-than-expected ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... debt problems were intensifying. Markets worldwide plunged overnight on renewed concerns about fiscal weakness in Italy and Spain and the eurozone's ability to contain more crisis, after the two countries' borrowing costs surged in recent days. Meanwhile ...

Buy the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... alongside the re-flaring of concerns over that lingering debt issue across the Atlantic - where the big economies of Italy and Spain are now in the crosshairs of bond mercenaries. And... safe haven flows into Japan has strengthened the yen - a sure depressing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... cent. European shares also fell sharply amid signs of contagion in the eurozone, with concern now focussing on Italy and Spain. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the local market had followed Wall Street down in the wake ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... euro gained against the dollar on the worrying US news and despite Moody's ratings agency issuing a gloomy warning over Spain. Investors focused on the potential of a US downturn and set aside company results from the likes of mining giant Anglo American ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... lingering concern over the growing US debt situation, dealers said. Eurozone debt contagion fears stayed alive with Italy and Spain paying high rates for borrowing in sovereign bond auctions despite the second rescue of Greece last week. In London, the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... Madrid and Milan each jumped more than three per cent, albeit after very sharp recent losses, as investors bet that Italy and Spain will beat the eurozone debt crisis trap which has already dragged down Greece, Ireland and Portugal. Banks led the rally ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... light at the end of the debt tunnel. Dealers said that with growing fears the eurozone debt crisis could snag Italy and Spain after Greece, Ireland and Portugal, sentiment took another knock as the ratings agencies put the United States in the firing ...

You can't handle the truth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... debts. The magic eight include Banco Pastor, Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo, Banco Grupo Caja3, CatalunyaCaixa, Unnim of Spain, Eurobank Ergasias, Agricultural Bank of Greece and Austrai's Oesterreichische Volksbanken. Reports say that these banks ...