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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... Britain's FTSE 100 ended the day 2.4 per cent higher at 5,394.53 while France's CAC-40 closed 3.1 per cent higher at 3,256.76. Germany's DAX rose 2.5 per cent at 5,784.85. Shares in Deutsche Telekom slumped 7.6 per cent after the Justice Department filed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... In Europe, eurozone consumer and business confidence also slumped in August, falling for the sixth consecutive month as Germany, Europe's powerhouse economy, tanked, an EU survey showed. The decline resulted from a "broad-based deterioration in sentiment ...

Bonds, where the real money is

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... nations swap their domestically issued bonds for those issued by the EU itself, meaning they will be under-written by Germany and France and effectively hit their balance sheets. Against this intrigue, the $240 billion owed by Australian governments ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... investment because they would be backed all 17 eurozone member countries including the stronger European economies of Germany and France. The bonds would provide a source of finance for the debt-laden countries such as Greece, Portugal and Ireland at ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... fear. This was the same message George Soros, founder and manager of Quantum Fund, conveyed during his interview with Germany's Der Spiegel magazine last week. Asked if we're going to see a double-dip recession in the US, Soros replied: "...if a double-dip ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... the Aussie has held up pretty well, although risk appetite overall is a bit weaker today," Mr Speizer said. France and Germany failed to reassure the market with the outcome of a meeting on the eurozone debt crisis, while disappointing eurozone growth ...

A penny saved could spark a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... of the USA, they are now doing the rounds of Europe. The spark? The cancer in the periphery is spreading to the core. Germany - the lynchpin, the tower of strength, that's keeping some semblance of hope in the Eurozone - barely grew in the second quarter. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... financial markets since the RBA last met," Mr Waterer said. He expected trading to pick up in the overnight session, as Germany releases GDP data, followed by British inflation data then building approvals figures in the US. The Australian dollar would ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... bond purchases "risk currency debasement and inflation" and won't boost employment." Similarly, finance authorities of Germany, France, China, Brazil and most emerging markets criticised the Fed's November 2010 decision and even publicly called it "irresponsible". ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... index of leading British shares closed down 3.4 per cent at 5,068.95, while France's CAC-40 slid 4.7 per cent to 3,125.19. Germany's DAX tumbled a further five per cent at 5,923.27. Greece's main stock market was the worst-performing in Europe, closing ...