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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... is the third eurozone country after Greece and Ireland to request a bailout and its plight has increased speculation that Spain - the fourth largest economy of the 17 countries which use the euro - will seek help. HONG KONG - Chinese stocks closed higher ...

Unshaken and unstirred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... of Portugal now going cap-in-hand to the EU/IMF for a bailout whispered to be around 75 billion euros (US$107 billion). Spain's surely next in line. But if that's the case, you'll not be able to tell from its financial markets. Spanish equities closed ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... too, even after Portugal announced that - dare they say it, it would be seeking EU/IMF financing bail out. What happened to Spain would be next in line? What happened to contagion? Spanish bond yields actually fell after the announcement and Irish bonds ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... as concerns over a deepening eurozone debt crisis offset largely positive US economic data. Dealers said news that both Spain and Portugal are struggling to meet key deficit targets needed to stabilise their public finances stoked fears that the debt ...

Capitalism killed Mars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011

Infra asset demand buoy CFS GAM and RARE

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... markets, strong power pricing, predictable cash flows and M&A activity should drive growth in the year ahead. In Europe, Spain, Portugal and Greece are all looking to privatise airports. CFS GAM believes that a 10 per cent pa compound return over the ...

Unknown unknowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... rates in the developed economies, there were renewed worries over the European sovereign debt crisis with a downgrade to Spain's credit rating, there were trepidations over the floods in Australia and the earthquakes in New Zealand, there were anxieties ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... while the broader S&P index lost 1.3 per cent. Stocks fell sharply Thursday on weak economic news from China, the US and Spain combined with a slump in oil company shares. The Dow Jones industrial average had its biggest drop since August 11. Other than ...

Oil outlook flips on economy flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... sovereign debt crisis again reared its heavily indebted head. Moody's - yes, people still listen to what they say - cut Spain's debt rating to Aa2 from Aa1. And coming on the heels of yesterday's "bad" Portuguese government bond auction results, we're ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... from offshore trading overnight, with foreign markets spooked by the crisis in Libya, and poor data from China, the US and Spain. On the ASX 24 at 0832 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was 34 points lower at 4,655 points. In economics ...