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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... after the ECB restricted Greek banks' access to a key source of cash, and Germany signalled its unwillingness to reduce Athens' debt. After spending most of Thursday in negative territory, Europe's main stock indices were pulled back up in late trading ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... per cent, at 5,733.7. NEW YORK - US stocks have given up late gains after the European Central Bank put fresh pressure on Athens by lifting its waiver on the use of Greek bonds as collateral. The move darkened hopes that Greece's new government could ...

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LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... rebound in oil prices helping energy shares. The Greek stock market soared by more than 11.3 per cent on Tuesday after Athens elaborated on its plans that would see repayment of its huge international bailout loans delayed but avoid a politically sensitive ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... Thursday and the country's four main banks rose nearly 13 per cent, recovering some of their losses from the previous day. The Athens stock market had plunged over 9 per cent on Wednesday after Greece's new hard-left Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras scrapped ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... stimulus into the eurozone economy, London's FTSE 100 rose 0.29 per cent to 6,852.40 points. However the main stocks index in Athens dived 3.2 per cent after Syriza and its 40-year-old leader Alexis Tsipras won 149 seats in the 300-seat Greek parliament ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... interest rate cuts early next year. Then there's Greece. It's back in the limelight and causing trouble again as usual. The Athens Stock Exchange General Index dropped by 12.8% as bond yields surged sparked by reports that the government has brought ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... to 9.732.55 and Paris's CAC 40 gained 2.67 per cent to 4,347.23. Madrid shot up 3.05 per cent, Milan 3.88 per cent and Athens 3.67 per cent. However the euro slumped on the prospect of more easy money being injected into the eurozone, falling to $US1.2405 ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... as quantitative easing (QE), had earlier also hit sentiment across global markets. Stocks in the eurozone's periphery of Athens, Lisbon and Madrid also slumped initially on renewed doubts over recent stress tests on the eurozone bank sector. But losses ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... in Frankfurt the DAX 30 index surged 1.94 per cent to 8,886.96 points. Milan jumped 2.8 per cent, Madrid climbed 2.4 and Athens soared 5.6 per cent. The Chinese economy grew by 7.3 per cent year-on-year in July-September - lower than the 7.5-per cent ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... knee-jerk reaction in the markets, then dip buying... all premised on the thought that what happens in Greece stays in Athens. We all knew what happened thereafter. But the other part of moi is egging me on to be one of those dip-buyers (if I had the ...