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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... Investors remained concerned over eurozone data, Argentina's debt default and the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. Portugal's main exchange also slumped 3.04 per cent, dragged down by banking shares after stricken lender Banco Espirito Santo ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... second day running, staging a tentative rebound from last week's losses after positive earnings and a bank rescue in Portugal. Frankfurt's main DAX index rose 0.39 per cent to end the day at 9,189.74 points, compared with Monday's close. London's benchmark ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... the dip and thought it was good and a-shopping they went. This, despite only one of the nominated crises on the list - Portugal's Banco Espiritu bailed out - being ticked off and a fresh one appears to be developing. I'll bet you my lunch money that ...

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... sorry Houston, we haven't got a problem - we got a crisis! There's Argentina defaulting on its debt (again), there's Portugal and Banco Espiritu Santo (again), there's increased geo-political risks - Putin and the Ukraine, Israel and Hamas, Syria, Iraq ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... Investors remained concerned over eurozone data, Argentina's debt default and the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. Portugal's main exchange also slumped 3.04 per cent, dragged down by banking shares after stricken lender Banco Espirito Santo ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... tougher. The ruble also gained 0.5 per cent to 35.56 to the US dollar, and 0.34 per cent to 47.53 against the euro. But Portugal's main index closed down 3.33 per cent as investors expected troubled Banco Espirito Santo to report significant first-half ...

Down one day, dip buying the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... to see this for this was clearly on parade just over the past very few days. Recall how you fretted Virginia the day Portugal's Banco Espiritu Santo's shares and bonds plunged and trading on them halted on the 10th of this month - the S&P 500 index dipped ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... European stock markets have jumped higher owing to strong economic growth data from China and an improved picture in Portugal, dealers say. London's FTSE 100 rallied 1.11 per cent to 6,784.67 points as Britain's unemployment rate hit 6.5 per cent in ...

Run with bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... get up again You're never going to keep me down." -- Chumbawamba Yeah, yeah, yeah Virginia, the financial troubles of Portugal's Banco Espiritu Santo may have stirred market anxiety last week - for one day (Thursday) last week to be exact - but it hasn't ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... speak not of the one-third of the 'Holy Trinity' that is central to the Christian faith but the bank named after it in Portugal - Banco Espiritu Santo. Trading in scripts and bonds issued by Portugal's biggest bank were halted overnight after they fell ...