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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... euros ($A109.56 billion), which would be linked to strict austerity measures. Portugal is the third eurozone country after Greece and Ireland to request a bailout and its plight has increased speculation that Spain - the fourth largest economy of the ...

Yikes the ECB hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... refinancing rate to 1.25 per cent after holding it at an "emergency" low of 1.0 per cent since May 2009. With Portugal joining Greece and Ireland in the "begging for funding" list just a day before the ECB Governing Council's decision - and the litany ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... a record low 1.00 per cent was widely anticipated. Portugal's decision to seek a debt rescue from the EU and IMF, after Greece and Ireland last year, was no surprise and had little market impact. The Lisbon market closed 1.18 per cent higher, helped ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... problems. The markets increasingly believe that Lisbon will be forced to seek outside help, like fellow eurozone strugglers Greece and Ireland last year, and are demanding ever higher rates of return to provide fresh funds to cover its debt. It would ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... struggling to meet key deficit targets needed to stabilise their public finances stoked fears that the debt crisis which claimed Greece and Ireland last year is far from over. Late in the day, Ireland announced that its stricken banks needed another ...

We shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... the bejeesus out of Qaddafi and his supporters. The European debt crisis is back. Last night, Standard & Poors downgraded Greece to BB- vs. BB+ with a negative outlook and downgraded Portugal to BBB- vs. BBB also with the negative outlook remaining. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... and widespread popular protests for change in the Middle East add to the uncertainty while another ratings downgrade for Greece and Portugal stoked fresh fears over the prospects for the eurozone. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... Portuguese government on Wednesday and the increasing likelihood Lisbon will need to seek a debt rescue from the EU-IMF, like Greece and Ireland last year, also seems to have been taken into account, they said. Some analysts suggested however that the ...

Infra asset demand buoy CFS GAM and RARE

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... pricing, predictable cash flows and M&A activity should drive growth in the year ahead. In Europe, Spain, Portugal and Greece are all looking to privatise airports. CFS GAM believes that a 10 per cent pa compound return over the next decade is a reasonable ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... discuss bolstering the euro's defences against speculation that weak economies such as Portugal may follow Ireland and Greece into crisis. The Madrid stock market's IBEX-35 index ended the day down 1.17 per cent at 10,435.6 points. Elsewhere in Europe ...