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Breathing space or gasping room?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... negotiated to extend over this weekend passed. "Plus ASa change..." We won! We won! In a televised statement last Saturday, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared, "Yesterday we took a decisive step, leaving austerity, the bailouts and the troika ...

Insurers grow market share at cost of profits

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
The market share consolidation of Australia's four biggest wholesale insurers (TAL, AIA Australia, CommInsure and Metlife) is offset by declining profits in the long-term, according to Rice Warner's Wholesale Risk Insurance Report. The "big four" group ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... by a better-than-expected 0.7 per cent, bringing full-year growth to 1.6 per cent, official figures showed. Greece's new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras edged closer to securing a massive revamp of its huge bailout after making his case to sceptical EU ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
... Belarus but scepticism remains as leaders warn that much is needed to be done before peace is achieved. Meanwhile, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem have agreed to renew efforts to resolve a bitter row over extending ...

LaSalle acquires Tokyo office complex

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
... market continues to be very active in core investing in Tokyo, but it has proved challenging for investors to get access to prime, core office real estate. Therefore, we are extremely pleased to acquire Meguro Gajoen in the current environment," LaSalle ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
The share market has opened lower amid fears of a Greek debt default. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's vow to stand by his anti-austerity electoral promises are denting global equity markets but locally, the mining giants and consumer discretionary ...

Tsipras has a dream

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... of herpes... Greece is again the word. Greece may have a fresh face holding the begging bowl to the IMF/ECB/EU troika in Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras but it's the same old, same old game of chickens. Tsipras begsA "please sir, may I have some more" ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... March share price index futures contract was down seven points at 5,753. In a rousing policy speech to parliament, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras refused to apply for an extension for an international bailout, raising the prospects that the country ...

Assistant Treasurer backs PM under fire

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has thrown his support behind Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who faces a leadership spill vote on Tuesday. In a doorstop interview with the nation's media, the Federal Member for Kooyong stood up to immense media pressure ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... losses from the previous day. The Athens stock market had plunged over 9 per cent on Wednesday after Greece's new hard-left Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras scrapped key privatisation projects and pressed home his demand for a renegotiated deal on the country's ...