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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... Lisbon's PSI-20 fell 4.28 per cent. In Italy, bank shares suffered the sharpest falls. Investor concern rose further after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had told Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to ensure Italy's parliament approved ...

Euro solar attracting Australian investment

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
Australian investors are investing in European renewable energy markets instead of domestic due to lack of stability and uncertainty at home, according to private equity firm Polaris Energy. The Luxembourg-based company said that Australian investors ...

Super acting like a SWF: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
Superannuation in Australia is acting like a sovereign wealth fund and is on track to boost savings each year by three per cent of GDP. In a major speech last week on Compulsory Superannuation and National Saving, Treasury researchers David Gruen and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... Frankfurt the DAX gained 1.13 per cent to 7,376.24, and in Paris the CAC 40 climbed 1.48 per cent to 3,982.21. News that German banks will take part in a second Greek debt rescue package also helped improve market sentiment, as did moves by Portugal ...

Just do it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
Just do it! For all the positive spins given to explain the big gains on Wall Street overnight, it's probably Nike that did it. Cyber reports speak of the Germans now being in tight with the French and agreeing to swap a big portion of their banks' ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
The Australian share market is expected to benefit again today, after a second day of strong performances by Wall Street. At 0658 AEST, the September share price index futures contract was up 51 points at 4,521. There is no economics news scheduled ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... budget measures - as negotiations on a new rescue package went into high-gear. In Italy, the spread between Italian and German 10-year bonds hit 212 basis points - their highest level since the creation of the euro, while banking shares suffered a shock ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... capital base to shield them against contagion from Greece's imminent default. This certainly would be very popular among German taxpayers. The same goes for other stronger Eurozone member countries. This could stop contagion at the door of profligate ...

Asian private wealth tops Europe

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
Asia's community of high net wealth individuals (HNWI) overtook Europe for the first time in 2010 as the world's richest look set to pour more money back into equities and commodities 2012. Asia-Pacific posted the strongest rate of HNWI population growth ...

Super funds urged to capitalise on Euro property yields

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011