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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
... crisis," Charles Schwab analysts said. Analysts said there remained many questions over the deal in last Friday's European Union summit in which 26 of 27 EU countries - Britain dissented - backed tougher fiscal limits in the future. LONDON - European ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... bring uniform discipline to government spending, was rejected by Britain, preventing it from applying to all 27 European Union countries. At 0715 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was 73 points or 1.74 per cent higher at ...

Plan 5 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... in some ways we're exposed literally to contracts but also because of the potential of civil unrest and break-up of the union that has been forged over there." This is perhaps the biggest news in all these folks. Now that a military General has rushed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... that after several failed attempts, Europe's leaders would finally resolve a crisis that threatens to tear the currency union apart and lead to another global downturn. WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares fell in a generally weaker day across Asia ahead ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... ratings agency Standard & Poor's spooked the market for the second time this week, warning that it may cut the European Union's credit rating as well as those for regional banks BNP Paribas, Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank. Ms Lee said many investors were ...

Euro debt crisis has silver lining for advisers: PIMCO

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... countries. Fisher also spoke about the need for recapitalisation for European banks, structural reform and a move toward a fiscal union. During the presentation, Fisher also discussed the 'New Normal' for the investment community where growth prospects ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... downgrade overshadowed news of a Franco-German plan to save the single currency. The shock S&P announcement came as European Union leaders prepared for a two-day summit which is regarded as crucial for the future of the eurozone, whose debt crisis has ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said they would push for a rewrite of the European Union's governing rules to tighten economic cooperation this week. "There's a lot of concern about what's happening in Europe," Commsec ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... euro. The leaders of France and Germany, the two strongest economic powers in the euro area, have called for a new European Union treaty designed to avert another crisis by imposing greater fiscal discipline on member countries. Financials stocks were ...

PM: Labor taking reform road on super

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
Prime Minister Julia Gillard told attendees at the Labour Union Co-operative Retirement Fund (LUCRF) community partnership trust launch in Sydney on Friday that the rise in the SG and abolition of the age cap would change peoples' futures. Pointing ...