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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... is the lone holdout. The agreement came after marathon overnight talks among European leaders at a two-day summit in Brussels. A deal on tighter fiscal control is considered a crucial step before the European Central Bank will consider committing more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... efforts," Charles Schwab analysts said in a client note. Leaders of the 27-nation EU opened a crucial two-day summit in Brussels mired in divisions over a treaty change demanded by Germany and undermined by an ECB warning there will be no big boost in ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... action doesn't address the fundamental problems posed by heavily indebted European nations. European 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 ...

A liquid Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... the slowly growing optimism in the investment markets. There's even optimism in the just-concluded EU finmin meeting in Brussels. The region's finance ministers agreed to expand the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) by leveraging its a,-440 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... risen above parity again, on the back of optimism that European leaders are coming closer to a debt crisis resolution. BRUSSELS - Eurozone finance ministers struggled on Tuesday to control a debt crisis threatening to break up the monetary union as Italy's ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... make the issue a key divisive feature of the 2012 presidential elections. European leaders were meanwhile meeting in Brussels to try to resolve the relentless debt crisis now threatening big nations such as France. In London, the FTSE-100 index of top ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... and well below the $US1.42-level reached last week when markets had welcomed the eurozone debt rescue plan unveiled in Brussels. In Italy, 10-year government bonds were still trading above 6.0 per cent - a level seen by analysts as a threshold that could ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... writedowns in an accord reached after two successive summits. French President Nicholas Sarkozy announced at a summit in Brussels that eurozone leaders had agreed to leverage the 440-billion-euro ($A591 billion) European Financial Stability Facility ...

Party in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... That, at least, is the conclusion one could derive if one had one's ear pressed closed to the European Union meeting in Brussels. There really was nothing fresh about the fresh reports that littered cyberspace after the 23 October meeting. There was ...

Work in no progress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a statement advising you, me and Irene to expect no decision this coming Sunday at their Brussels summit. Instead, they "promised" to produce a comprehensive plan at a second EU summit to be held on 26 October at the latest. ...