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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... extended its gains from early trade as investors return to equities on renewed optimism a solution is near at hand on the eurozone debt crisis. The local bourse opened more than one per cent higher on Thursday after Wall Street surged for its second ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... three per cent to nearly five per cent on expectations that EU leaders were close to agreement on how to deal with the eurozone sovereign debt crisis. Stocks also got a mild boost from economic data that, while not demonstrating a strong economy, argued ...

Bear killer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
... (and all other problem members) at all cost and without reservations or allow Greece to default or kick it out of the Eurozone. Not exactly, the 'in sickness and in health' Greece married, is it? Good thing, things seemed to improving in America. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
... fall away too dramatically," he said. Mr Spiteri said that despite diminishing investor confidence on the back of the eurozone debt crisis, value was now being recognised in local shares. "There's probably a little bit of interest here within Australia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... direction but I think everyone's a little bit frustrated with the snail pace (at which Europe is acting to resolve the eurozone debt crisis)." He said weaker Dow Futures might see the market drift slightly into negative territory with some profit-taking ...

Some hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... to governments and raise Germany's contribution guarantee by 71.5% to a,-211 billion from a,-123 billion. While all 17 eurozone member nations' need to ratify the plan, it's basically a done deal - notwithstanding reports that teenie-weenie Slovakia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... jobless benefits claims. Meanwhile, Germany's approval of the EU's July 21 plan gave hopes that it would pass all 17 eurozone states and Europe's leaders would move ahead with a confidence-building second bailout of Greece and also strengthen the region's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... uncertain about a crucial vote on the Greek bailout package. The rally on global markets ended overnight amid doubts eurozone leaders were any closer to resolving the debt crisis. At noon, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 51.4 points, or 1.3 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... 4,097.7. NEW YORK - US stocks closed sharply lower after an early rise Wednesday as worries persisted over whether the eurozone would come up with an effective approach to containing the Greek crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 179.79 ...

Promises and plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... known as 'tit-for-tat' - for an enhanced bailout where Greece would go into an orderly default but still remain in the Eurozone in exchange for Germany getting its demand for creditors to bear a 50% haircut - more than twice the 21% agreed upon last ...