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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... will be shut on Friday for the royal wedding and next Monday for an additional public holiday in Britain. On Tuesday in Italy, French dairy giant Lactalis launched a takeover bid worth 3.4 billion euros ($A4.63 billion) for Italy's Parmalat to create ...

China surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... refrain out of Europe. Sovereign bond yields jumped overnight led by none other than the PIGIS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain). The trigger? Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told his country's Die Welt newspaper that Greece might ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... Saudi Arabia 2.4 9. Korea, South 2.2 10. Canada 2.2 11. Mexico 2.1 12. France 1.8 13. Iran 1.7 14. United Kingdom 1.7 15. Italy 1.5 Note that the G-7 - the world's biggest economies - along with China and India are in the list of the 15 major oil consumers. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... showed on Monday. The shockwaves from the unrest in Libya did have an effect, particularly in its former colonial overlord Italy -- a top foreign investor in Libya and a country in which the North African state has also invested billions. Libya's sovereign ...

Bunga bunga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... tonight... So listen very carefully, closer now and you will see what I mean. It isn't a dream..." --Carpenters Just like Italy's Emperor (Silvio Berlusconi) was allegedly photographed with showgirls with no clothes at his "bunga bunga" - after-dinner ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... given the almost universal improvement in the latest purchasing managers indices in China, India, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil, Czech Republic, Turkey... shall I go on? Markit Economics latest report shows that they're ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... they did Greece. But then... they'll start searching for whos' next. They're scouting around as we speak. Portugal? Spain? Italy? But "If anything can go wrong..." All these would seem mundane if the King of the Jungle that is the US is doing just fine. ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... same time. The tension is rising, the suspense chilling cause soon three heads - or more - could pop up (Portugal, Spain, Italy). Investors fled risk assets big time overnight from "New York to Rio and old London town" fearing more tightening measures ...

Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... can't pay so there must be others? Searching... searching. Yes there are! Markets found Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, the UK and even the biggest one of all, the US. They've all hocked their economies to their eyeballs... some even passed ...

Detox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... left would be forced to accept a 5 per cent reduction in their wages this year. Then there's the two I's -- Ireland and Italy. Ireland had been on a fiscal spending diet since 2008 when the government approved austerity measures that included cuts in ...