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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... indices leaping more than one per cent amid optimism that Europe would reach a deal to avoid a destabilising default by Greece. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 145.13 points (1.21 per cent) to close at 12,188.69. The broader S&P 500 jumped 16.57 ...

Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... The Australian share market was expected to open stronger after a resurgence on Wall Street overnight as fears eased over Greece's debt crisis. At 0710 AEST, the September share price index futures contract was up 49 points at 4,491. In economic news ...

Better second half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... Middleton or Lindsay Lohan. But that aside, Wall Street could have gone either way given what was on offer last night. Greece's Parliament is still in discourse over whether to tighten the noose around its citizens' necks a bit more by passing another ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... sector helping push down the euro. European leaders approved the latest tranche in the year-old rescue fund - contingent on Greece passing crash budget measures - as negotiations on a new rescue package went into high-gear. In Italy, the spread between ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... come full circle to the lingering Greek tragedy and the European sovereign debt crisis saga. Reading as much as I could on Greece and the Eurozone over the weekend confirmed my early prediction that there's no way out for Greece but an honest-to-goodness ...

Big Benny and little Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
Fresh events and reports released overnight really did not add to what we already know. We already know that Greece will be bailed out for a default because its exit from the Eurozone would trigger a game of "who's next?" Small and insignificant Greece ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... on hold. The US Federal Reserve outcome was largely as expected while markets had largely anticipated that debt-stricken Greece's government would survive a key confidence vote late Tuesday. Markets were now looking to see if Greek Prime Minister George ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
Australian stocks were performing strongly at noon, following positive moves in Greece overnight towards accessing more bailout money. At 1225 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 37.3 points, or 0.83 per cent, at 4,545.5 points, while the broader ...

No change to Korea, Taiwan status: MSCI

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... investibility has been significantly impaired. Similarly, no changes are being considered to the market classification of Greece despite the sovereign debt crisis and recent turmoil.

All clear for a bail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... looks hunky-dory, thanks very much. There was a kind of hush all over the world last night - hush over the tragedy that is Greece. Wall Street was up - big time. And Europe - the closest to the blast zone - was up bigger time. All this because - according ...