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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... Italy and Greece put in place new governments committed to tough economic reforms but all eurozone nations bar powerhouse Germany were roughed up on the bond markets. Italian benchmark 10-year bond yields once again topped the 7.0 per cent red-zone level ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... Greece and Italy in succumbing to eurozone financial instability. The critically important gap between the rates paid by Germany and France, the two pit props holding up the eurozone, widened to a record 191 basis points or 1.91 percentage points in ...

Reverse contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... to the others. The extra yield investors demanded to hold French, Belgian, Spanish, Austrian and Dutch bonds instead of Germany's bunds widened last night. But Spud, have you looked at the yield offered by German bunds? At 2.5% they're lower than the ...

Weekend worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... guessing about what lies ahead the Monday after. Consider this: We spent the 22-23 October weekend worrying over France and Germany's negotiation over their disagreement on how to leverage the EFSF. They shook hands and markets were happy the Monday ...

Autumn Angst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... goes down with the ship. Wherever we look, there's trouble, big trouble everywhere in Europe. So much so that head honcho Germany is now taking precautionary measures. German newspaper, Handelsblatt, reports that Fraulein Merkel's party has proposed ...

Hero to Zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... democracy. We're practicing that democracy by letting the Greek people decide! (not his words, mine). Prime accord movers Germany and France were certainly miffed and they made it known in no uncertain terms - and so did the financial markets. No one ...

Shape up or ship out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
Germany and France has called Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's all-in "referendum" gambit. Monsieur Sarkozy and Fraulein Merkel suspended the disbursement of the a,-8 billion rescue tranche until Greece makes up its mind to stay in the Eurozone ...

Congressmen agitate for US transaction tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... price-earnings multiples low among asset managers," he said, meaning it would be resisted by Wall Street despite a push by Germany and France for the tax to be implemented worldwide. "[But] any momentum for the EU proposal could keep discussions alive ...

Uncertainty here we come (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
... should the Opposition become in charge. Given this predicament, it's hardly surprising that those that have much to lose - Germany and France -- have scrambled and came out with some soothing words. According to 'Mail Online,' "In a frantic phone call ...

Party in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... accelerating. And if you think this is just happening in the problem periphery - you're wrong - the core looks to be melting too. Germany's manufacturing PMI recorded its first contraction in two years while France's service sector plummeted to 46.8 ...