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PIGS!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... rating cut only last 29th October and Greece is already junked. S&P warned that of the 15 Eurozone members, six countries - Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Finland - face a one-notch downgrade while the remaining nine are staring ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... deepening debt crisis. The local market extended its opening losses amid light volumes after the ratings agency warned Germany, France and 13 other eurozone nations they risk losing their triple A ratings. The pullback came despite gains in US and European ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
Australian shares are set for a modestly stronger start after France and Germany called for a new EU treaty with tougher budgetary rules to deal with the eurozone debt crisis. Stocks markets rose on the proposal, but Wall Street pulled back on reports ...

She's becoming right, mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... increase. Still, these were no match for the double-digit gains recorded in the bourses of Italy (+11.0%), France (10.8%), Germany (+10.7%), and Spain (10.2%). Looks like our mythological Sisyphus has rolled the boulder up that mountain once more. But ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... eurozone was already taking steps to create a fiscal union. President Nicolas Sarkozy declared on Thursday that France and Germany would push to give the European Union a new treaty to restore tough budgetary discipline in the debt-ravaged eurozone. ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... governments don't do the right thing absent the threat of sanctions or punishment. Given record high yields in Italy and Germany's failed bond auction and threat to France's credit rating, Eurozone authorities may (hopefully) decide that they've had ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... index plunged 564 points last week on fear that Europe's debt crisis was spreading to large countries like Spain and even Germany. The Standard & Poor's 500 rose 33.88 points, or 2.92 per cent, to 1,192.55 and the Nasdaq composite rose 85.83 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
... crisis and weak growth in the eurozone, a major US trading partner. Markets spent the day stuck in negative territory after Germany was able to sell only part of an issue of German 10-year bonds, considered the gold standard of eurozone debt. The Dow ...

Those tight Aussies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
... rates experienced in the four years from 2002 to 2005. Only the savings ratio of Ireland (14.4%), Belgium (11.0%) and Germany (10.9%) are expected to be higher next year. I wonder, wonder why? While Belgium and Germany have historically had high household ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... debt and weak economic outlook. HONG KONG - Asian shares were mixed as fears about Europe's debt crisis deepened after Germany, considered the pillar of the eurozone, failed to sell all its bonds in an auction. While some markets managed to eke out small ...