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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... second-largest economy and as worries mounted about Europe's debt crisis. European Union officials lashed out at the Moody's ratings agency a day after its downgrade of Portugal, while anxious bond investors drove up yields for Spanish and Portuguese ...

The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... as palpitation - let alone fear. And this is all because of reports that Moody's has junked Portugal. The credit-rating agency cut Portugal's credit rating to Ba2 from Baa1 -making it the second Eurozone member with a non-investment grade credit rating ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... expectations of a rate rise by the European Central Bank (ECB) this week. Traders were spooked in the afternoon when ratings agency Standard & Poor's warned that plans to roll over Greece's debt could amount to a default. Tokyo jumped 0.98 per cent ...

Bendigo finds safe harbour from wholesale storm in retail deposits

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... Greek turmoil raising Australian bank funding costs has lifted the prospects of a growing Big Four competitor. Ratings Agency Standard and Poor's raised Bendigo and Adelaide Bank's credit rating from stable to positive, with a possibility they could ...

Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... dropped after a warning at the back end of last week from Moody's over Italian banks' creditworthiness, with the ratings agency saying it was mulling downgrades across the sector. The renewed fears sent the Euro down, which had knock-on effects in Tokyo ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... period". Energy stocks were among the biggest losers of the week, with their values plummeting after the International Energy Agency announced a drawdown of strategic petroleum stocks to drive down soaring oil prices. ExxonMobil was down 2.3 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... points, with Dow components ExxonMobil and Chevron falling heavily after oil prices dropped sharply. The International Energy Agency's decided to release 60 million barrels of crude from its members countries' strategic reserves, causing oil prices to ...

The sound of QE3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... keep constant the Federal Reserve's holdings of securities at their current level by reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in longer-term Treasury securities. The Committee will continue to roll over the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... also bad news for Italy, with the main Milan stock exchange index falling by more than two per cent after Moody's rating agency warned it may cut the country's credit rating in view of strains in the economy. TOKYO - Japanese stocks closed flat on Monday ...

The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... assigned a negative outlook to the ratings. The rating action concludes the review for possible downgrade that the rating agency initiated on 9 May 2011. The main triggers for today's downgrade are as follows: 1. The increased risk that Greece will ...