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Lonsec: Australian equity markets ready to rebound

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... interest rates in the Australian economy with an improving global growth outlook, particularly in the US and Asia but also Germany, and Liberal/National governments transitioning back to each State and most probably federally by 2013, the economic and ...

Instant replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... soothing gabfest that follows. There's the ECB bragging about its arsenal of weapons to fight the good fight. There's Germany lessening its pro-austerity rhetoric and of course, there's the IMF with its recently increased firepower. Speaking of which ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... that inflation stays close to target." Hit it one more time, for Ben's a jolly good fella. The European Central Bank and Germany also looks like they're beginning to see my point of view (and my attachment to JMK- John Maynard Keynes) - more focus on ...

No surprise in surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... choke the French economie with severe austerity as much as Monsieur Sarkozy does. It's back to the drawing board with Germany and Brussels if Hollande is elected Premier Ministre. No more Merkozy. C'e la vie. Holland. It's the austerity question too ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... month's 49.1. The Stoxx 50 index of 50 European blue chips closed down 2.9 per cent, with financial stocks hit hardest. Germany's DAX 30 ended 3.4 per cent lower at 6,523, France's CAC 40 fell 2.8 per cent to 3,098.37 and the London FTSE shed 1.9 per ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... 13,029.26 by the close of trade. European stock markets and the euro were firmer after solid business confidence data from Germany and as investors looked ahead to a key IMF meeting and weekend French elections. In afternoon deals, London's FTSE 100 ...

Market Wrap-Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... sank 2.5 per cent. LONDON - European stock markets and the euro were firmer after solid business confidence data from Germany and as investors looked ahead to a key IMF meeting and weekend French elections. In afternoon deals, London's FTSE 100 index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... still up 5.7 per cent for the year. Declining stocks outnumbered advancing shares 3-to-1. Stock indexes in France and Germany fell more than 2.4 per cent. Spain's main stock index fell more than three per cent and is now down 15 per cent for the year ...

Govt bonds reach $237bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... compares to Japan in second place with debt at 210% of GDP, Greece in fourth place at 165%, Singapore in 10th place at 118%, Germany in 22nd place at 82%, the UK in 23rd place at 80% and the US in 32nd place at 69%. Australia's net foreign debt is meanwhile ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... risk/high yielding assets like the Aussie dollar lose steam," he said. In Europe, London's FTSE 100 dropped 1.03 per cent and Germany's DAX 30 fell 1.13 per cent. In New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.54 per cent lower while the S&P 500 ...