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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
The Australian share market opened slightly higher despite weak offshore leads on the back of higher Spanish and Italian borrowing costs. At 1011 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 13 points, or 0.32 per cent, at 4,076.7, while the ...

PIG now officially PIGS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
Happy Birthday your majesty... and thank you! Thank you for the three-day weekend which allowed us one-extra day of sleep in. Thank you for the extra day of rest that also meant another day of boozing. But most of all, thank you for leading us not into ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
Stop looking. There are no ifs, no ands, no ors, and no buts to find, it's getting ugly out there. Oh yes Virginia, the combed over look ugly as events and indicators of the past week suggest that we are coming into, if not already in, a perfect storm. ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... awaits them if they don't do something, anything. Even Germany would suffer if the Eurozone members go their own ways. The German deutschemark would shoot up, German competitiveness erode, manufacturing and exporting companies would close down, unemployment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... throughout the session but took a final turn higher on news Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti had invited French, Spanish and German leaders to a four-way summit after key Greek elections in June. At close London's benchmark FTSE 100 index inched up ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
... throughout the session but took a final turn higher on news Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti had invited French, Spanish and German leaders to a four-way summit after key Greek elections in June. At close, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index inched up ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
Now look at that! Wall Street and most European stock markets ended on the plus side last week despite that nagging Grexit feeling - and its potential to be followed by an Irexit, Portexit, Spanexit and Italexit - that'll culminate in a eurozone kaboom. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
... throughout the session but took a final turn higher on news Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti had invited French, Spanish and German leaders to a four-way summit after key Greek elections in June. At close London's benchmark FTSE 100 index inched up ...

Eurozone turmoil sparks 'flight-to-quality'

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... come first, he has not made it clear how he will implement his campaign pledges in a time of eurozone crisis. While the German economy grew 0.5% in the first three months of 2012, the Ifo Economic Institute said that the intensification of the Greek ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street closed mainly in the black following early session losses and the major European bourses finished in positive territory. At 0825 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract ...