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Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... to an intra-day record high while and benchmark indices in Paris, Milan, Madrid and Lisbon jumping by over 1.0% while in Athens, stocks powered ahead by nearly 3.0%. That may be but... the euro - another main variable to future inflation and growth - ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... points, the CAC 40 in Paris dropped 2.42 per cent to 3,968 points. Milan dropped 2.34 per cent, Madrid fell 2.96 per cent, Athens plunged 4.08 per cent and Istanbul slumped 4.73 per cent. The European single currency rose to $US1.3391, from $US1.3369 ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... and the S&P 500 closed at fresh record highs overnight. So deym excellent that even Greece's stock market surged - the Athens SE General Index jumped by 1.71%. Oh pardon moi, it's such been a long time that you may have forgotten all about Greece and ...

Ghosts? What ghosts?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... There's also Greece - it might not get the next tranche of its bailout worth a,-8.1 billion. The IMF/EU/ECB troika has given Athens three days (two days and counting now) to show it's continuing to meet its bailout conditions or it's bye-bye bailout ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... Greece's bailout lenders, the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank, had given Athens three days to demonstrate its reforms were still on track. LONDON - European stock markets fell in low volume trade after beginning ...

Cypriot banks to re-open sans banking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... in four days (says head of internal audit at the Central Bank of Cyprus, Yiangos Demetriou) or seven days (according to Athens newspaper Kathimerini). Yes Virginia, the capital controls are all in place and we're just waiting for the banks to open its ...

Sweeet!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... tough the troika was on the Greeks back in May of two years ago before they agreed to give the a,-110 billion bailout to Athens. They gave Greece a list of conditions it must comply with to be deemed worthy of salvation. Greece must implement tough austerity ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... bailout deal that will help it again avert a default on its huge debt load. Doubts remained about the new deal, which allows Athens to trim its debt load through bond buybacks and reduced rates and promises new rescue loan instalments of 43.7 billion ...

Future Fund to buy airport assets

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... investments in airports found in every state in Australia, as well as small interests in airports in Hamburg, DA1/4sseldorf and Athens that it holds through a 40% equity stake in HOCHTIEF Airport Capital. It also has 6.25% of the equity and all of the ...

Ten-year future vs. 10-minute tick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... the worries returned to Europe and whether or not the troika would drop another penny into Greece's begging bowl despite Athens' compliance with its benefactors' pre-conditions with the passage of the 2013 austerity budget last Sunday. Yes Stuart, 'fool ...