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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 - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... weaker today," Mr Speizer said. France and Germany failed to reassure the market with the outcome of a meeting on the eurozone debt crisis, while disappointing eurozone growth figures weighed on sentiment early in the session, he said. Mr Speizer said ...

A penny saved could spark a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... is spreading to the core. Germany - the lynchpin, the tower of strength, that's keeping some semblance of hope in the Eurozone - barely grew in the second quarter. German real GDP inched up by a mere 0.1% in the second quarter. This is lower than market ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... Street following better-than-forecast weekly job claims. Fears about the world economic outlook and the risk that the eurozone debt crisis could engulf other members of the 17-state currency bloc - notably France - resulted in shares see-sawing around ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
Australian shares opened lower after a negative lead from Wall Street, and on renewed concerns about eurozone debt. At 1015 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 66.8 points, or 1.61 per cent, at 4074.5 points, while the broader ...

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... "joke" - that cried more. The Euro Stoxx-50 dropped by 6.1% at the close with equity gauges in the core countries of the Eurozone dropping big time. The German DAX index lost 5.1%; France's CAC-40 index gave up 5.4%; Italy's MIB index plunged 6.7%. And ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... rating, which compounded concerns over the world's biggest economy as well as the global outlook. The combination of the eurozone debt problem and Standard & Poor's downgrade led to frantic talks between financial chiefs and central bankers of the G7 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... confidence was hammered by more weak US economic data and a warning from the head of the European Commission that the eurozone debt crisis had likely spread to other economies. Tokyo tumbled 3.72 per cent, or 359.30 points, to close at 9,299.88 while ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... intensifying. Markets worldwide plunged overnight on renewed concerns about fiscal weakness in Italy and Spain and the eurozone's ability to contain more crisis, after the two countries' borrowing costs surged in recent days. Meanwhile, the US Labor ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... between 104.55 US cents and 106.89 cents. Overnight, the European Central Bank (ECB) offered extra help to fight the eurozone debt crisis after a warning that countries such as Italy could now be threatened. Meanwhile, the US Labour Department reported ...