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Antares makes global bond fund management appointment

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... billion in funds under management, covering a range of fixed interest securities across the risk spectrum, including sovereign debt.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... 5.42 points (0.21 per cent) to 2,598.62. Divisions among European Union member nations over how to resolve the eurozone sovereign debt crisis had markets on both sides of the Atlantic on edge. A European Union summit slated Sunday will now be followed ...

Disagreeing to agree

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... firepower, they still need to compromise with regards to its use. Because of its banks' massive exposure to the PIGIs sovereign debts, France wants to use the EFSF immediately as a first line of defense to recapitalise its banks. But the Germans say ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
... Street and extending a recent rally on hopes that eurozone leaders will be able to hammer out a solution to the region's sovereign debt crisis. Tokyo rose 0.97 per cent, or 84.35 points, to 8,823.25, Sydney gained 0.96 per cent, or 40.2 points, to 4,244.5 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... in Paris for tense talks at the weekend. TOKYO - Asian markets were mostly lower after Standard & Poor's cut Spain's sovereign credit rating, renewing concerns about the extent of Europe's fiscal woes. The losses follow a week of broad global gains that ...

S&P/ASX create fixed income indices suite

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... Government Bond Index, S&P/ASX State Government Bond Index, S&P/ASX Corporate Bond Index, S&P/ASX Supranational and Sovereign Bond Index and the S&P/ASX Bank Bill Index which assesses the local short-term money market. "The bonds we chose for this index ...

Happily dreaming of the end

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said that European banks "urgently" needed to recapitalise to weather the sovereign debt storm. Wall Street investors also digested the minutes of the last Federal Reserve policy-setting meeting released ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... big news by now and I hear you laughing too at the joke that is the current twist in the plot of this whole European sovereign debt fiasco. Remember how everybody and his dog were cheering - just over the past two days - reports that the giant economies ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... the start of company earnings season and a key vote in Slovakia that could decide the eurozone's rescue fund amid a sovereign debt crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 16.88 points (0.15 per cent) to finish at 11,416.30. The broader S&P 500 ...