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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... stocks closed higher on Friday, regaining some ground lost in the previous session, as signs that a bailout for debt-ridden Greece could come soon eased fears of wider credit woes. But Honda Motor fell after forecasting a smaller-than-expected rise in ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... most points to the index." Mr Taylor said higher oil prices had helped boost the resources sector, and the likelihood that Greece would accept an austerity package in return for a bailout from its debt problems had given investors a little more appetite ...

Too much ado about Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
So what was the hulaballoo of the past two days all about? It's now looking like too much ado about Greece, and Portugal, and Spain, and... Smokin'! What worries me more is the 25 per cent increase in tobacco tax by Krudd and the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... bourses returned to positive territory after a top European Union official said talks on a multi-billion-euro bailout for Greece were nearing completion. The benchmark FTSE 100 index closed up 31.23 points, or 0.56 per cent, at 5,617.84 points. FRANKFURT ...

Contagion has already happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... This will be that all too familiar refrain from many market pundits who got swept away from the sensationalisation of the Greece. Worse, others -- like US Marines -- just followed the crowd. As in the words of Alfred Lord Tennyson, "For theirs not to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... first half results. On Wednesday, the Australian share market closed lower in the wake of credit ratings downgrades for Greece and Portugal and lower commodity prices. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ended down 57.2 points, or 1.17 per cent, at 4,822.8 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
The Australian dollar was lower at noon after a downgrade in the credit ratings of Greece and Portugal prompted investors to offload higher-yielding assets. At 1200 AEST, the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.9191/93, down 0.62 per cent from Tuesday's ...

Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... Rumsfeld - a "known known." The problem that just won't go away; like an irritating fly in the midst of an Australian barbie, Greece just keeps coming back to spoil the festivities. I don't know about you, Virginia, but news that Standard & Poor's cut ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... set for a significantly weaker opening after Wall Street and European markets plunged due to worsening debt problems in Greece and Portugal. At 0748 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 90 points lower at 4,794 ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... arbitrage'-the migration of banks to places where the burden of tax and regulation is lightest." Seek and thou shalt find. There's Greece... and Ireland, and Portugal and Spain... and all other high deficit and heavily indebted sovereign countries. But ...