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Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... reducing its official opinion of US creditworthiness to AA+, below that of AAA-ranked countries such as Britain, Australia, Germany and Canada. It is expected to have an effect on US bonds, pushing yields up and prices down, increasing the cost of borrowing ...

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... 2412.29, its lowest point since 2009. In London the FTSE 100 lost 191.37 points or 3.43% to close at 5393.14 while in Germany the DAX finished down 225.83 points or 3.4% at 6414.76. Economist Saul Eslake, program director at the Grattan Institute, said ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... started to drift lower late in the overnight session, as news from Europe sparked new concerns over their debt crisis. Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schauble warned overnight that the Eurozone debt crisis was far from over and said Greece's bail-out ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
The Australian dollar gained slightly after it emerged that France and Germany may have reached agreement over how to resolve the Greek debt crisis, ahead of a crucial 17-country summit. At 1200 AEST on Thursday, the Australian dollar was trading at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... public deficit drove Asia higher and set up Europe to build on Tuesday's technical rebound. A more positive lead from Germany on Thursday's crunch eurozone debt summit in Brussels also helped but the underlying tone remained cautious given the failure ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... higher and Italy's bond yields edged down further. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 37.5 points, or 0.6 per cent, to 5,906.43, while Germany's DAX gained 93.8 points, or 1.3 per cent, to 7,267.87. France's CAC 40 closed up 20.7 points, or 0.55 per cent, at 3,793.27. ...

Euro solar attracting Australian investment

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... he said. Currently, Europe is the biggest green energy market globally due to a binding targets agreement in 2007, with Germany and Italy the largest solar markets. Wilson believes that with the recent issues surrounding nuclear energy, demand for solar ...

Super acting like a SWF: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... and Leigh Soding said that despite perceptions of low domestic savings rates, Australia's 24% gross savings rate matches Germany's and compared to other OECD countries is second only to Japan's 26%. The big question however is to what extent does Australia's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... banks, many of which are exposed to Greek debt, have been hit hard in recent days as the Greek crisis intensifies. In Germany, Commerzbank gained 4.58 per cent while Deutsche Bank rose 2.18 per cent. French banks Credit Agricole jumped 3.56 per cent ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... get out of this mess. The problem is everyone wants 'the' solution where most could walk out of this crisis unscathed - Germany in particular. Hey, that's another thought! Why couldn't Germany be the one to leave the Eurozone instead of Greece? It could ...