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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... billion ($A2.4 billion), over the next year. LONDON - European stock markets were mixed and the euro advanced against the US dollar as eurozone finance ministers met in Brussels after last week's EU budget deal. Supermarkets were in focus on Monday as ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... Nasdaq Composite Index fell 0.20 point, or 0.01 per cent. LONDON - European stocks fell and the euro plunged against the US dollar after the ECB held its key rate steady despite calls by France and others for looser monetary policy. The euro ended Thursday's ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... strong result for the second week in a row. LONDON - European stock markets climbed and the euro gained against the US dollar as traders welcomed positive economic data from China, the eurozone and the US, although Apple shares crumbled on Wall Street. ...

There's no bubble in bond markets: Tyndall AM

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... dollar-denominated assets are benefiting from central banks' impetus for diversification away from currencies such as the US dollar, and this is helping drive bond prices higher. Quantitative easing in the US, Japan and the UK has the effect of lowering ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... cannot default because it borrows in its own currency - it can just print lots of it to repay their debt - and that the US dollar is the world's premier international reserve currency - there'll always be a demand for it. Besides having only two A's ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... rose 3.87 (0.12 per cent) to 3,125.63. European stock markets closed with modest gains, while the euro rose against the US dollar as traders digested Chinese inflation data and the announcement of a stimulus package in Japan. London's benchmark FTSE ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013
... after the European Central Bank and Bank of England held key interest rates steady. However the euro gained against the US dollar as traders reacted to positive bond sales by indebted eurozone nations Spain and Italy. London's FTSE 100 index of leading ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... positive lead from Wall Street, with traders hopeful for a deal in the United States to avert the fiscal cliff. The US dollar edged up slightly against the yen after falling in New York trade ahead of a US Federal Reserve meeting that begins later in ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... quarter while traders remain upbeat a deal will be made on averting the fiscal cliff. The yen eased further against the US dollar and euro on Friday after the Japanese government announced a huge spending spree to kickstart the economy just weeks before ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... the euro-Swiss franc currency comparison to 1.50 Euro-Swiss franc exchange rate has not gone beyond 1.22 this year. 8 US dollar-yuan rate rises 10 per cent to 7... China gets to the brink of a "recession", meaning 5 to 6 per cent GDP growth. US dollar ...