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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... The Australian dollar is slightly higher as optimism grows that the Eurozone will issue its own bonds in a bid to ease sovereign debt crisis. At 0700 (AEST) on Monday, the Australian dollar was trading at 103.85 US cents, up from 103.75 cents on Friday. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... tracked Wall Street firmly into the red. Risk sentiment unravelled overnight as fears about global growth, European sovereign debt and bank liquidity added to poor US manufacturing data. At 1200 AEST on Friday, the Australian dollar was trading at 103.37 ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... Jeremy Jukes said the Australian dollar had suffered overnight, as poor US economic data compounded European fears over sovereign debt and bank liquidity. European bank stocks took a battering on fears over the global economic recovery and renewed concerns ...

H2O scores Mercer mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... million mandate to London-based global bond manager, H2O Asset Management. The mandate was allocated into the global sovereign and currency strategy, as announced by H2O's Australian affiliate, Apostle Asset Management. Richard Borysiewicz, Apostle director ...

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... US - 49.35 2002: US Recession; Tech Crash; World Com, Enron - 48.46 2008: Global Financial Crisis - 89.53 2010: Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis - 48.20 2011: US Downgrade/European Debt Crisis/Double Dip Fears - 48.00 Now think back - think real hard - how ...

Future Fund posts higher returns, chairman warns of volatility

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... chairman David Murray has warned that the new global debt crisis could take 20 years to resolve. The world's 13th largest sovereign wealth fund posted a 12.4% return for the year to June, 2011 excluding Telstra. It was an increase of 1.8% over its ex-Telstra ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... and plumbed further depths on Tuesday morning, following Wall Street's first trading session after the downgrade of US sovereign debt last Friday. Energy stocks were hit particularly hard at the open, down 5.88 per cent according to IRESS data. Industrials ...

Goodbye or good buy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... didn't help that Standard & Poor's went on a slashing spree last night - cutting the ratings of names tied to their US sovereign. 'Midnight Trader' reports that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae got chopped, so were "farm lenders; long-term U.S. government-backed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... from the value of the share market, sending it to a two-year low in the aftermath of the first ever downgrading of US sovereign debt. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed down 119.3 points, or 2.91 per cent, at 3,986.1. The broader All Ordinaries index ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... market dropped sharply on the open as nervous investors reacted to Standard & Poor's historic weekend downgrade of US sovereign credit. At time of writing the All Ordinaries Index had fallen 66.1 points or 1.59% to 4103.6 while the S&P/ASX 200 was down ...