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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... Industrial Average fell 53.59 points, or 0.46 per cent, to 11,493.7. Markets are feeling pressure on several fronts. European powers France and Germany are miles apart over allowing the European Central Bank to rescue the eurozone from a debt crisis ...

SelectingSuper celebrates super powers

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
This morning's SelectingSuper Awards, held in Melbourne at the MCG, featured TEN Network veteran sports journalist Stephen Quartermain as Master of Ceremonies and media personality and former AFL player, Sam Kekovich as special guest speaker. Australia's ...

Disagreeing to agree

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... may have already sold her shrine to help pay back its debts.) Financial markets don't know where to jump because European powers-that-be can't agree on where they're taking us. Last Sunday, European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... the 0.6 per cent rise expected by most analysts. Eurozone leaders were celebrating Slovakia's delayed ratification of new powers to the currency union's EFSF bailout fund, but there was no respite from the crisis, with Spain's credit rating downgrade ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... travel plans disrupted. Its shares fell half a cent to $1.56, after Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned the government had powers under the Fair Work Act to intervene in the dispute if it began to impact the national economy or health and safety, a move ...

Some hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... to increase the lending capacity of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to a,-440 billion and give it new powers to purchase sovereign bonds in the secondary market, recapitalise banks, offer precautionary lines of credit to governments ...

ISN submission targets advice requirement

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... with the Best Interest Duty proposal and the move to increase the Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) powers.

Glimmer of hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... price of commodities weaken as global growth slows. It's not a good view of the world by any measure but I'm very sure the powers that be already - and the financial markets -- know this. And herein lies the glimmer of hope -- all this doom and gloom ...

Asian counterweight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... agreed to a second bailout of Greece and increased the European Financial Stability Facility's (EFSF) bailout funds and powers. But nah, it must come to this - the same way it did in previous episodes from the very first time Greece cried that it needed ...

Not looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... conjure some positive tidings out of these negatives - there usually is, at least one - but given the ineptitude of the powers that be to present a credible, concerted and concrete solution to these problems, perhaps the most prudent course of action ...