Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 71 - 80 of 210 results for "Italian"

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... 9,719 contracts traded. IG Markets broker Chris Weston said investors were continuing to chase high yielding stocks as the Italian elections were making them risk averse. "There's a little bit of hesitation to put any sort of sizeable trades considering ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... of Italy's general election on February 24 and 25. "I think the market is a little bit cautious firstly because of the Italian elections," he said. "Europe remains a long term risk in the minds of most investors and Italy is a key economy for Europe ...

Gone in 60 seconds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... Europe clawed back some. The S&P 500 gained as much as 1.3% before closing at 1.0%. Spanish shares jumped by 2.2% and Italian ones rebounded by 1.1%. And why not? We've seen so many instances in the past when head honchos' heads rolled in Europe and ...

"Others" are still fearful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... polls on "vows to rip up "German-imposed" austerity policies and cancel a hated property tax". An offer they can't refuse? Italian yields rose by 15 bips to 4.48%. Nah, it wasn't so much this unsettling news but the financial markets' reaction to the ...

It's happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... Milan's FTSE Mib benchmark rebounded by 1.51 per cent to 15,585.61 points, one day after slumping 2.22 per cent after Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti announced his intention to resign. Madrid's IBEX 35 rose 1.49 per cent to 7920.9 points, clawing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... the looming fiscal cliff was in the works. Markets showed little effect from the fresh turmoil in the eurozone, after Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said he would resign in the coming days and Silvio Berlusconi threatened a comeback on an anti-austerity ...

Bond CFDs, charting tools now on Saxo platform

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... Available on SaxoTrader, SaxoWebTrader, SmartMobileTrader and the SaxoTrader App the new products include; French OAT (10y), Italian BTP (10y), German Bund (10y), German Bobl (5y) and German Schatz (2yr). The new offering will enable retail clients to ...

Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... return for investors on Spanish 10-year bonds dropped to 5.616 percent from 5.670 per cent on Tuesday. The yield on 10-year Italian bonds slid to 4.960 per cent from 4.994 per cent. The euro drifted upwards to $1.2966 from $1.2959 late in New York on ...

Market wrap - AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... the secondary debt market, rates on Spanish 10-year debt fell to 5.877 per cent from 5.938 per cent on Friday. Rates on Italian benchmark debt dipped to 5.076 per cent from 5.092 per cent. An audit by US financial consultancy Oliver Wyman released ahead ...