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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... when and if to provide more stimulus. LONDON - European stocks struggled as investors fret over the global impact of the eurozone crisis and poor US earnings, but sentiment has been partly boosted by a new Spanish austerity package. At the close, London's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... contracts traded. US stocks closed sharply lower on Tuesday as investors digested a positive start to earnings season, a eurozone deal to help support Spain and its banks, and disappointing Chinese trade data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped ...

Uncertainly good or bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... EU finally came through and is about to implement its first set of "breakthroughs" agreed upon at last month's summit. Eurozone finance ministers shook hands on the a,-100 billion aid promised to Spain, with an initial downpayment of a,-30 billion disbursed ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... lower following sharp falls on Wall Street overnight as investors digest a positive start to the US earnings season, a eurozone deal to help support Spain and its banks, and disappointing Chinese trade data. At 0745 AEST on Wednesday, the June share ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... spiked to the danger level of seven per cent and the euro briefly hit a two-year low point in volatile deals before a key eurozone finance meeting. London's FTSE 100 index slipped 0.62 per cent to close at 5,627.33 points on Monday. Frankfurt's DAX 30 ...

'Brownfield' infra better suited to pension funds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... of Europe and we're seeing Middle Eastern investors do the same, so I think a lot of investors are seeing the current eurozone challenges as an opportunity to pick up very high quality assets. "It's not the assets that are distressed - it's the sellers," ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
... a bit more clarity there with the Fed." The ECB cut its key interest rate to a record low of 0.75 per cent to boost a eurozone economy weighed down by the continent's crisis over too much government debt. The quarter percentage point reduction follows ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
... Kong stocks closed up 0.5 per cent at an eight-week high on expectations the European Central Bank would act to stem the eurozone debt crisis. The benchmark Hang Seng Index added 99.38 points to close at 19,809.13, but the turnover of HK$40.37 billion ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... points and Paris' CAC 40 gained 0.96 per cent to 3,271.20 points. Data showing that car sales in Germany are resisting the eurozone crisis drove Frankfurt's DAX 30 index up 1.26 per cent to 6,578.21 points. Madrid rose 1.34 per cent. The euro rose to ...

Tell that to the marines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... a reading of 49.9, HSBC's PMI measure, at 48.2, was the lowest since November last year. So too is Europe's. Markit's Eurozone manufacturing was unchanged at 45.1 in June. While above the preliminary reading of 44.8, it's the l lowest reading since June ...