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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
... Australian market had defied a positive lead from offshore and dipped after the release of disappointing Chinese trade deficit data. "There are a few factors at play. It's a big week ahead and it seems like investors are cautious ahead of US trade," ...

Good bacteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
... good bacteria) and provide succour to Europe and the rest of us. The bigger than expected 4.3% increase in the US trade deficit in January is a case in point because it shows that America is helping to do some heavy lifting. It is buying more from the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... against the yen, while the Japanese unit was also pressured by news that the country suffered a record current account deficit in January. Tokyo jumped 2.01 per cent, or 192.90 points, to 9,768.96, Sydney advanced 0.66 per cent, or 27.3 points, to 4,171.0 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... ended 0.86 per cent weaker. Making news on Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said the nation's current account deficit widened to $8.374 billion in the December quarter, from $5.824 billion in the September quarter. The result was slightly ...

Austerity's political pay-off

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... the Thatcher years. "The problem is that all of the imbalances of 2008 - the US not saving enough, the current account deficit, Europe not having much growth, the periphery of Europe not being as productive as the core of Europe - none of those issues ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... above the lowest at D. A draft Greek law - part of the rescue implementation program - separately showed that the public deficit this year will be 6.7 per cent of gross domestic product, up from the previous target of 5.4 per cent. News of a slowdown ...

Problem solved, not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... happens next? What happens next is it gets only a small chunk of it, which for the most part would go into plugging the deficit in its budget. Here's CNBC's take: "The vast majority of the funds in the 130-billion-euro programme will be used to finance ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... than one per cent, but it closed up 0.27 per cent, or 6.42 points, at 2,363.60. Tokyo shrugged off a record monthly trade deficit of Y1.475 trillion ($A17.22 billion) to close with the Nikkei 225 up 1.08 per cent or 100.92 points at 9,485.09. On currency ...

Insult me, insult you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... would have been so easy if it's only Greece on the firing line. The decision would simply be either to cover its entire deficit - even all of its national debt -- or let it go bankrupt. But it's not. There's Portugal, Spain and Italy in the queue. And ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... selling a $US3.8 trillion ($A3.57 trillion) election-year budget - a spending outline designed to cut $US4 trillion from the deficit in 10 years through spending restraints and higher taxes on the wealthy. WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has unveiled ...