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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... broader All Ordinaries index was down 4.6 points, or 0.08 per cent, at 5,770.1. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have followed European equity markets lower, dropping on growing fears of a Greek default and exit from the eurozone. At the closing bell, the ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... Ordinaries index was up 67.5 points, or 1.19 per cent, at 5,733.7. NEW YORK - US stocks have given up late gains after the European Central Bank put fresh pressure on Athens by lifting its waiver on the use of Greek bonds as collateral. The move darkened ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... day up 4.6 per cent, after Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis met his British counterpart - the latest stop on his European charm offensive. US President Barack Obama, who Monday put forward a $US4.0 trillion budget loaded with spending and tax ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... consumer prices fell by a record 0.6 per cent in January, raising fears deflation is taking hold in the region. LONDON - European stock markets closed down, as deflation worries deepened for the eurozone, which was locked in crucial talks with Greece ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... LONDON - Shares in energy companies have fallen after they announced falling profits on tumbling oil prices, although European markets were broadly steady. London's FTSE 100 index, home to energy majors Royal Dutch Shell and BP, slid 0.22 per cent to ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... country's new anti-austerity government pressed home demands for debt relief and rolled back the privatisation program, but European markets largely shrugged it off as they focused on the US Federal Reserve. London's FTSE 100 rose 0.21 per cent to end ...

CFSGAM completes fundraising for European infrastructure fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) has closed the European Diversified Infrastructure Fund (EDIF) after successfully achieving its fundraising objective of $2.9billion. The fifth and final round of fundraising saw the fund draw in ...

A Fed surprise?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... Fed - expected to raise interest rates sometime this year - and quantitative easing by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the European Central Bank (ECB) leaves markets no other option but to catch a ride with greenback. Financial markets appear to be sanguine ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... attractive yield in a low return environment." Looking abroad will be another key trend in 2015. Lower valuations in the European Union and Japan are likely to attract long term focused investors, while "any stock exposed to the United States economy ...

Magellan ups cash weighting ahead of market volatility

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... markets," Douglass added. The last time that Magellan increased the fund's cash weighting was at the beginning of the European sovereign debt crisis in early 2010, he explained. Commenting more broadly on the opportunities ahead for 2015, he labelled ...