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Market Wrap - Mid-Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... took a hit from data showing a weaker-than-expected labor market after global markets were unsettled by fiscal woes in Greece. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 53.13 points, or 0.51 per cent, to 10,321.03 at settlement, partially recovering from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... a trading update. On Thursday, the Australian share market closed lower on broad-based falls after fresh worries about Greece's debt problems and as investors digested local earnings results. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed down 54.4 points, or ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... States, France and Germany that dampened investor confidence. Analysts also pointed to lingering unease about prospects for Greece, struggling with a debt and deficit crisis and hit again on Tuesday by a credit downgrade on its four largest banks from ...

Goldman Sachs backs Greek swap deal

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
Goldman Sachs has defended its swap agreement with Greece, describing the transaction as "common practice" and consistent with Eurostat principles. The global investment bank said Greece entered a series of hedging agreements designed to transform foreign ...

In the eyes of the beholder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... changed. China remains in a tightening mode. It cannot afford not to do so lest it risk an overheating in its economy. Have Greece and the other PIGS paid back a single euro of debt? Not! Japan is out of deflation. Sure! Have sovereign debts inched down ...

Happy days are back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... if it fails to make sufficient progress in cutting its deficit by then. If the European Commission is not satisfied with Greece's efforts, the EU "will impose on Greece the acceptance of additional measures." Yeah, kick the country when it's down! And ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... overnight for the President's Day public holiday. Ms Saly said the European Union had provided some clarity about its plan for Greece's financial woes, which had helped to boost sentiment, Ms Saly said. "A very strong trading update from Westpac before ...

Change of heart

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... didn't help that the US Federal Reserve was printing so much US dollars that the world had dollar indigestion. But then Greece came along sending the euro down, down, down against the greenback -seemingly suggesting that investors would rather hold a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... on Monday in cautious trading as eurozone ministers held talks that investors hope will yield concrete measures to help Greece overcome its financial crisis. In Brussels, pressure was mounting on Greece to take tougher action to slash its debt and public ...

Love thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... their government and other European Union countries to spend a single euro cent - let alone billions of euros to salvage Greece. Around 53 per cent of polled Germans would rather have Greece expelled from the Eurozone instead. What happened to love thy ...