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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... to levels last seen in September 2008 just before the collapse of giant US investment bank Lehman Brothers. FRANKFURT - Germany's DAX 30 rose 82.04 points, or 1.42 per cent, to 5,877.36 points. PARIS - The CAC 40 advanced 82.01 points, or 2.14 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... its eurozone partners failed to back it were brushed off by European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet. Meanwhile, Germany insisted Athens still must sort out its own problems first before any aid. Dealers said the latest exchanges muddied the waters ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... 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 for Athens. The news leads combined helped push Wall Street higher, setting the example ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... disappointing 2009 results. The main FTSE 100 index closed up 78.12 points, or 1.45 per cent, at 5,484.06 points. FRANKFURT - Germany's DAX rose 63.05 points, or 1.1 per cent, to 5,776.56 points. PARIS - The CAC 40 index gained 42.38 points, or 1.12 ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... help Greece and to consider all appropriate measures depending on their acceptability to our euro-zone partners, notably Germany because we started this process bilaterally and we are keen to continue in the same way." So what do the Germans have to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... stock exchanges fell hard on Tuesday in the wake of surprisingly weak economic data from the United States, France and Germany that dampened investor confidence. Analysts also pointed to lingering unease about prospects for Greece, struggling with a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... LONDON - European stock exchanges lost ground on Monday in hesitant trading in the face of strikes under way in France and Germany and in the offing in Britain. The slide in Europe followed a bargain-hunting urge for Asian equities. The London FTSE 100 ...

Love thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... that majority of Germans don't want to bear gifts to the Greeks - instead, they want a divorce. No love lost. A poll by Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper revealed that 67 per cent of Germans did not want their government and other European Union countries ...

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... Heck, even bigger countries like France, with an expected budget deficit is 8.4 per cent of GDP, Italy (5.1 per cent) and Germany (3.2 per cent) have all breached the Maastricht covenant! This shows that Eurozone authorities are willing to bend some ...

Research finds country bias in pension asset allocation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... (fixed payments come retirement) factor in the balance sheet. This is why defined benefit-driven pension funds like France, Germany and Japan invests a large part of their portfolio in bonds while defined contributions (DC) pension funds such as Australia ...