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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a major speech on Friday that the eurozone was already taking steps to create a fiscal union. President Nicolas Sarkozy declared on Thursday that France and Germany would push to give the European Union a new treaty to ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... finance ministers in Brussels have been meeting since Tuesday but have failed to deliver a clearer sense of how the currency union will proceed. Investor sentiment was also lifted by China's move to reduce bank reserve levels on Wednesday to release ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... BRUSSELS - Eurozone finance ministers struggled on Tuesday to control a debt crisis threatening to break up the monetary union as Italy's borrowing costs skyrocketed to alarming levels. MILAN - Italy's borrowing rates shot up to a new high on Tuesday ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
Australian shares have posted modest gains after strong rises overseas due to a positive retail performance in the United States and hopes of developments on Europe's debt crisis. The local market's early gains were more moderate than those offshore ...

SG rise through House of Representatives

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... brunt. "As soon as the Government asks the parliament to legislate an employer obligation from 9% of payroll to 12%, no union in their right mind in Australia is going to offset their wage claims for an obligation employers already have been told by ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
Australian shares fell, led by declines among gold and metals stocks and amid low turnover, after losses overnight on overseas markets. At 1215 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 30.1 points, or 0.72 per cent, at 4,132.9, while the broader ...

Market Wrap- Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
The Australian share market at noon was lower as investors remained concerned about the European debt crisis and awaited developments on the US economy. At 1200 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 23.8 points, or 0.57 per cent, lower ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... debt-laden country back from the brink of a fiscal disaster that has threatened to tear apart the eurozone. Former European Union commissioner Mario Monti was nominated Sunday to replace Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister and pledged to get to work ...

Economist and former EU commissioner appointed Italian PM designate

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... University for 15 years, is tasked with guiding his country through a debt crisis that has threatened to bring down the European Union. The speed of his appointment, which came at the request of the Italian president, was intended to restore market confidence ...

Autumn Angst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... use the euro currency but still retain their membership in the Eurozone. What the? Goes to show how tenuous the monetary union has become. Eurozone divorces here we come! And given Wall Street's near 4% slump last night, this would be extrapolated to... ...