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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... labor market - a key element in resurrecting its economy - in the face of opposition from unions. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on Europe to urgently speed up efforts to regulate financial markets, particularly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
... thanks to a positive OECD report that raised the growth forecast and other upbeat US economic data. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday her country would push "with all our strength" for a strong euro, saying Germany had been a prime beneficiary ...

Rambo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... financial markets that are the problem, it's the mountain of debt and accumulated fiscal deficits. German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes that "if the euro fails, not only will the currency fail, but also Europe and the idea of European unity." But ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... associated insurance derivatives and 10 major financial stocks added to a sense of crisis in Europe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's later warning that stringent regulation and fiscal rectitude were needed to ensure the survival of the eurozone was ...

Nein to naked shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... because "massive" short selling "could endanger the stability of the entire financial system." German Chancellor Angela Merkel was more to the point when she said earlier this month that, "In some ways, it's a battle of the politicians against the markets... ...

Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... Portugal and Spain and... will take the entire Eurozone down with it need only know that Greece's salvation is just an Angela Merkel away. Yes, it's only Germany's Chancellor that stands between Greece's ruin and its salvation. She remains adamant that ...

Flip-flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... countries would provide half of the non-subsidised loans to Greece, the IMF the rest. At least German Chancellor Angela Merkel is consistent. Herr Merkel noted that Germany would support IMF and European government lending to Greece only as a last resort ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... say about this? Remember they were the most against any Greek rescue. In an ARD TV interview, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that, "It now very important that we are aware that it is our joint currency but also that we get to the roots of the current ...

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... mandate... we have a clear no-bailout clause." Michael Meister, financial affairs spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, has the answer -- a bilateral aid or a package put together by a group of countries using the ...

Daily Economic Update

... this month for the first time in five years keep a lid on inflation. Financial markets expect German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to raise its own national growth forecast of 1.2 per cent after its next review in late January next year. This ...
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