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Find me that silver bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... politically, because we would very quickly face a domino effect." With these words - broadcast over Berlin-based Inforadio - German Chancellor Angela Merkel relieved financial market stress over catching Greece's communicable disease. Herr Chancellor ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
The Australian market looks set to open modestly higher, following in the footsteps of US stocks. At 0703 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was up four points at 4085. In economic news on Wednesday, the Westpac/Melbourne ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... Street's major indices staged a late-session rally after following European bourses sharply lower in opening trade. Signs of German impatience with the Greek government's management of its debt crisis, and the prospect of French banks suffering a credit ...

Damned to default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
Seen on Bloomberg this morning: "Greece Default Risk Jumps to 98%" (over the next five years). Duh! I don't know what financial markets have been smoking but as far I'm concerned Greek's been cactus ever since it's debt-to-GDP ratio hit 140% and real ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... 3.25 per cent. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions. LONDON - Stocks plunged and the euro fell as signs of German impatience with Greek debt woes and fears over French banks compounded worries that the world is set for another recession ...

Not looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
Financial market waters are getting more treacherous by the day. The signs are all around us - macro-economic fundamentals are deteriorating, systemic risk is growing and technical indicators of risk assets are breaking down. I'd like to able to conjure ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... as ECB watchers suggested that the bank was deeply split over its handling of Europe's sovereign debt crisis. Stark, a German, had been a sharp critic of the ECB's controversial program of buying government bonds of deeply indebted eurozone countries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... with 1.7 per cent and 1.9 per cent respectively previously. HONG KONG - Asian markets were mostly higher as news that a German court had dismissed an attempt to block the country's payments to eurozone bailouts was tempered by profit-taking. Early gains ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... All Ordinaries index was up 102.2 points, or 2.5 per cent, at 4,262.9. NEW YORK - US stocks jumped on Wednesday after a German court ruling helped clear the way for a eurozone bailout plan and the Federal Reserve said the US economy was still growing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... eurozone reported on Tuesday shrinking 0.2-per cent growth in the second quarter of 2011, dragged down by a rapid decline in German performance and a stagnant France economy. Gold, seen as a safe bet in times of economic uncertainty, jumped on Tuesday ...