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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
The Australian share market held its gains by noon but was trading off its highs of the session as investors await the outcome of an October 23 European Summit to discuss the region's debt crisis. Both major indices had gained over one per cent in early ...

Good news, bad headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
It must be that time of year again - the time when scare mongering comes into fashion. It's the middle of October and it will soon be Halloween. So please understand why I literally jumped off my seat when Bloomberg flashed before my very eyes the headline ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
The Australian share market continued to trade lower at noon on Tuesday, reversing Monday's gains, amid pessimism overseas about Europe's ability to sort out the region's debt problems. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had lost 72.5 points, or 1.7 per ...

Dream on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... "Dreams that everything will be resolved and dealt with by next Monday cannot be fulfilled." Dream on. With these words, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble crushed financial market optimism that everything will be smooth sailing by this time ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... per cent from 3.21 per cent. Bond yields and prices move in opposite directions. LONDON - European stocks fell after a German warning against undue enthusiasm that an EU summit this weekend will produce a quick solution to the eurozone debt crisis snuffed ...

APRA executive appointed secretary general of Basel

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
Australian Wayne Byres has been appointed as the new secretary general of global banking standard-setting body, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Byres has been at the helm of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) as executive ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... financial trouble with Slovakia being the last one to approve it on Friday morning, Australian time. Earlier in the week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to come up with "a lasting, global and quick response ...

Happily dreaming of the end

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... in the financial markets. Equity markets didn't do much overnight. The S&P 500 was up a little, the Dow down a bit, the German DAX a fraction higher and the FTSE-100 virtually flat. They're all still waiting on Europe's final act. Well, it could have ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... KONG - Asian markets surged for a fourth straight day as dealers followed a rally on Wall Street sparked by a French and German promise to back up beleaguered eurozone banks. Adding to the sense of optimism on Tuesday was a decision by France, Belgium ...