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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... holiday. Dealers said there was little news other than a Standard and Poor's warning that current debt relief efforts on Greece are tantamount to a default - an outcome the eurozone is trying at all costs to avoid. In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... Morgans private client adviser Bill Bishop said the positive rally on Wall Street, as well as a more encouraging picture from Greece, had supported a "broad advance" on the Australian market. "The offshore lead was clearly very good on Friday night," ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... cent lift on Friday to 3475.003 followed a surge of 33.4 points on Thursday as investors buoyed by apparent progress on Greece's efforts to avoid a debt default also looked to improving signs in the domestic economy. There were 36.3 million shares traded ...

Sunny side up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... Whew! After the nerve-wracking "will it won't it" - default, be bailed out, pass austerity measures - shilly-shallying over Greece's immediate future, financial markets are back walking on the sunny side of the street. It's as if the whole Greek - EU/ECB/IMF ...

New index rates sovereign debt issuers

BLACKROCK RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... robust. Poor achievers Hungary, Ireland, Egypt, Italy and Venezuela are flagged as having below-average creditworthiness. Greece and Portugal rate poorly coming in at the bottom of the index due to high debt levels.

I'm still standing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... performance over the dying days of June belied the lie of the land - and might I add enriched those who stayed the course. Sure, Greece gave us a scare. But we, at the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU), never doubted that it would be bailed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... the Australian share market ended the last day of the financial year on a strong note, buoyed by investor optimism after Greece passed austerity measures to help avoid a default on its debt. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index on Thursday closed up 78.5 points ...

Bank stocks rise on Greek confidence

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... share prices of the Big Four banks, which all rose on the passing of the austerity package. The sovereign debt crisis in Greece has increased the cost of borrowing on the wholesale markets where Australia's major banks source 40% of their funding. Vince ...

Pigs may fly but they won't default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... Helsinki Index surged by 3.5 per cent last night and Norway's OBX Stock Index by 2.8 per cent. But wait, isn't this all about Greece? Now it's virtually assured of another 12 billion euros from the EU/ECB/IMF troika to tide it over until the next time ...

Just do it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... portion of their banks' holdings of maturing Greek debt with longer maturity (30-years) debt. This is positive - it'll give Greece some air while it chokes itself with 78 billion euros worth of austerity measures (if Parliament decides to pass the plan ...