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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... closed lower on Thursday, extending losses on growing concerns that Greece will not be able to resolve its debt and public deficit problems without outside help. Dealers said the mood calmed somewhat in the afternoon after European Central Bank head ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... markets closed lower on Wednesday, with investors increasingly concerned that Greece may not be able to resolve its debt and deficit problems, dealers said. Markets gave back some of their recent gains as Greek borrowing costs jumped higher still despite ...

Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... No, because of the surprising 1.4 per cent drop in February retail sales. Yes, again, because of the ballooning trade deficit. Exports rose by 1.4 per cent in February but imports rose by more - 2.4 per cent. This implies that Australia is growing more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
The Australian stock market has received mixed leads from offshore markets, with Wall Street trading lower but gold, oil and silver prices firmer. At 0730 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was up 13 at 4,892 points ...

Greenspan put

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... of federal debt which we have never seen before." Has anyone seen US$1,400,000,000,000 before? That's America's budget deficit as at 30 September 2009. Think that's big? Wait till you hear the deficit expected for fiscal year 2010...a whopping US$1,560,000,000,000! ...

Currency managers on notice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
... between 1978 and 2009. This index series seeks to replicate this strategy. "As long as the world has surplus countries and deficit countries and the deficit countries will have to attract capital, they'll be that forward rate bias," said Carl Beckley ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... was the same old, same old sprinkling of negative news interspersed with the positive. There was news that the US budget deficit rose to a record US$221 bil in February - a 13.9 per cent increase from the same month last year. The latest numbers show ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... better-than-expected US jobs data helped allay concerns about the economic outlook. Easing concerns over Greece's massive deficit and debt problems, after Athens successfully sold bonds to raise five billion euros on the back of its latest austerity ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... measure of the latest twists in the Greek debt crisis. The latest exchanges over Greece's efforts to resolve its public deficit and debt crisis also appeared to undo some of the goodwill generated on Wednesday when Athens announced an additional set ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... two years in the same month, boosted confidence. Remarks by EU officials on Greece's latest measures to trim its public deficit back to eurozone norms were taken positively, suggesting European powerhouse Germany will now agree to some form of EU aid ...