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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... German promise to back up beleaguered eurozone banks. Adding to the sense of optimism on Tuesday was a decision by France, Belgium and Luxembourg to bail out Dexia bank, the first lender to be dragged under by the European debt crisis. Tokyo closed 1.95 ...

The good, the bad and the whatever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... Moody's cut the ratings of 12 UK banks citing the removal or lessening of government support and has warned it could put Belgium next in line on the barber's chair for a shave. And for a trifecta, Standard & Poor's was not to be outdone. It snipped the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... Dexia was facing collapse, hit by lack of ready funding cash and a heavy exposure to debt-stricken Greece. France and Belgium stepped in to guarantee Dexia financing after the stock slumped 22 per cent on Tuesday, allowing it to finish with a modest ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... market was 80 points, or 1.8 per cent, higher with gains across the board. European markets rallied on Friday after France, Belgium, Spain and Italy banned the speculative practice of short-selling stocks to combat "false rumours" that have destabilised ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... early Friday evening, driven by a recovery in European equity markets. European markets rallied on Friday after France, Belgium, Spain and Italy banned the speculative practice of short-selling stocks to combat "false rumours" that have destabilised ...

You can't handle the truth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... closer to reality - if not already. And that's just for Greece. What about the other Greece's of Europe? Ireland, Portugal, Belgium, Spain and recently, Italy? Also, does anyone really believe that the banks need a top up of just a,-2.5 billion combined ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... that another experiment at monetary unity has failed. The first time they tried - and failed - was in 1865 when France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland tried to unify their currencies by forming the Latin Monetary Union. They were joined by Spain and ...

Judgment Day bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... the lower the credit rating. A classic downward spiral! And while Fitch was in a cutting mood anyway, it also downgraded Belgium's ratings outlook from stable to negative. Not to be outdone, Standard & Poor's found a bigger fish to fry, cutting Italy's ...

Food profits to rise: Macquarie

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... Australian grazing land on which it runs cattle and sheep. Abraham said the land area owned is bigger than the size of Belgium (30,528sq km) and puts Macquarie in the top 10 owners of Australian land by area. Increasing demand in years ahead would be ...

Aussie fund managers outside top 100

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... countries with smaller economies, and smaller investment markets than ours, including South Africa, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium, all have entries in the top 100. With the exception of South Africa (boosted by 34th placed behemoth Old Mutual, who has ...