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Market set to open higher

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher as international markets await the impact of Greece's breakdown in its debt bailout talks. At 0645 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was up 10 points at 5,510. No major local ...

Market down at midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... punished in early trading with a surprisingly heavy market fall of about 1.7 per cent. The most dominant issue is still Greece's debt crisis with a solution appearing a long way off despite the looming default deadline of Tuesday. IG chief market strategist ...

Shares lower on Greece worries

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
The Australian share market has opened lower as cautious traders await news from Greece. CMC chief market analyst Ric Spooner said Australians had woken up to a standoff between the two parties following a presumption there would be a resolution between ...

Extensions - What the Greeks await and the Russians hate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... thought that there'll be handshakes all around just on day one of the scheduled two-day EU leaders' "emergency summit" on Greece's bailout... it's not the last minute. That will be tomorrow night. That's when the fat lady sings. I still maintain that ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... contract was down 13 points at 5,616. Wall Street was down almost one per cent as fresh problems emerged in talks between Greece and its international creditors aimed at preventing a Greek debt default. Locally on Thursday, National Australia Bank will ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... markets are likely to look for the next big worry. They don't have to scour far, wide and yonder - it was out-headlined by Greece these past few days but it has always been there, And it's name is lift-off. Some brave speculator out there made -- and ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... because on optimism that a Greco-troika deal would be hammered -- perhaps not yet but soon -- in time for the troika to give Greece the euros to enable Athens to repay the troika. Markets are happy because Tsipras batted his eyelids - he blinked. Reuters ...

Plus ca change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
No mA!s! I'm up to my eyeballs with it and it's oozing out of my eyelids. Greece, that is. The Greek tragedy goes on as last Thursday's make or break broke down, necessitating the call for an "emergency summit" later today. But don't hold your breath ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
When the global financial crisis broke, people dubbed them the PIIGS. Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain were the ugly ducklings of Europe. They had inefficient economies, had been relying on EU funding and were heavily indebted. Today, most ...

Market set for a steady start

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
The Australian market looks set for a steady start to the week, as Greece and European leaders continues to work towards ending the country's debt crisis. At 0704 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was down three points ...