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Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... crisis will not let up. News overnight that a US special committee failed to come up with bipartisan measures to tackle the US debt mountain added to the negative tone, promising to make the issue a key divisive feature of the 2012 presidential elections. ...

Market Wrap- Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... US, a bipartisan political "supercommittee" is racing against a Wednesday deadline to find a long-term solution to the US debt crisis. Failure would trigger mandatory cuts from January 2013, but that timeframe means the US Congress can wriggle out of ...

Mercer highlights allocation dangers

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... uncertainty around European markets on riskier growth assets and found that it was too soon to tell if the European and the US debt crises would result in another global recession. "The risks are elevated and the pivotal role politics is playing makes ...

Italy's bond market collapse puts US back in favour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... bonds. Rapidly changing bond money movements continue to explain the confounding impact of this year's S&P downgrade of US debt. Ironically, it's being reported that the ratings agency is again considering another downgrade, from AAA to AA+, following ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... which boosted the risk-sensitive Australian dollar. Also overnight, Fitch Ratings said it would maintain its rating on US debt at the highest grade, AAA, and issued a "stable" outlook, meaning it expects the rating to stay there, another positive for ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... eurozone debt. Asian markets have suffered a rollercoaster week, tumbling from Friday to Tuesday on eurozone fears and the US debt downgrade before rebounding Wednesday after the US said it would hold rates at record lows for two years. In other markets ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... European situation is still pretty dire." Overseas markets, trading for the first time since Standard and Poor's downgraded US debt after market closed on Friday, reacted badly to the call. Stocks in London, Paris, Frankfurt and New York felt the effects ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... cent, while Caterpillar fell 9.2 per cent. LONDON - Global stocks took another pounding as worries over the downgrade of US debt outweighed relief at the European Central Bank's purchase of Italian and Spanish bonds to help the two countries avoid devastating ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... position and placed the US on negative outlook, threatening future downgrades. Bondholders have been concerned by the size of US debt and the decline in value of the US dollar, eroding the purchasing power of their investments. Bill Gross, managing director ...

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... afford to pay given their existing levels of debt," he said. Eslake said in the US the focus had switched from the risk of US debt default to weaker-than-expected first-half economic data. "All eyes tonight will be on the release of the employment data ...