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Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... is expected to win government when Greek elections are held again next month, believes in its heart of heart that the Eurozone would not wave Athens adieu for if it does, they'll all suffer. Syriza knows that it's got the Eurozone by the cojones, emboldened ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... 0.82 per cent, to 4,316.3 points. NEW YORK - US stocks have sunk as speculation about Greece's potential exit from the eurozone continues after the country's political parties failed to forge a government. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down ...

Deja vu of deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... firmly in the red as Greece's political stalemate and Spain's banking problems drove new fears about the strength of the eurozone. Meanwhile turmoil at JPMorgan Chase over its $US2 billion derivatives loss announced last week kept US bank shares under ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... in the financial system. LONDON - European stock markets took a hit from political uncertainty in Greece and downbeat eurozone forecasts but then recovered on better-than-expected US inflation and consumer sentiment data. After spending most of the day ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... fiscal deficit, financial, banking, economic, political and social crisis. You name the crisis. One or more members of the Eurozone's got one, or more, or all of them and in spades. The crisis du jour - as everyone's aware - is borne of socialist Hollande's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... six-day losing streak, amid hopes that Greece's moderate socialists might be able to form a government and avoid a new eurozone debt crisis. But plunges in the shares of Cisco and Priceline after disappointing quarterly earnings reports pulled the Nasdaq ...

Scare me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... disappoint, and yes, there was Greece and speculation about whether or not it'll be given a bailout, default or exit the Eurozone. It was scary back then because the trip down 2011's memory lane shows that these uncertainties lubricated the Dow's slide. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... market looks set to open lower after the US and European bourses fell as investors sought shelter from strains in the eurozone driven by political upheaval in France and Greece. At 0855 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... while the broader All Ordinaries index rose 14.3 points, or 0.33 per cent, to 4,375.9 points. NEW YORK - Turmoil in the eurozone and a clutch of disappointing earnings reports have sent US markets tumbling. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gave up almost ...