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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... stocks rose on Wednesday, rebounding from early losses and shaking off news of a Chinese interest rate rise and fresh eurozone debt worries. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 56.15 points (0.45 per cent) to close at 12,626.02. The broader S&P 500 ...

Not in the mood for bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... day before. Yes, we already know that Greece is broke, Portugal is the other Greece - and perhaps someday, the entire Eurozone would turn Greek, when the debt 'can' European authorities are kicking runs out of road. Wall Street ended higher despite (could ...

The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... Moody's has junked Portugal. The credit-rating agency cut Portugal's credit rating to Ba2 from Baa1 -making it the second Eurozone member with a non-investment grade credit rating (no cigars for guessing who's the first) and warned that, "A further downgrade ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... a Standard and Poor's warning that current debt relief efforts on Greece are tantamount to a default - an outcome the eurozone is trying at all costs to avoid. In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index of top shares closed up 0.46 per cent at 6,017.54 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... Thursday. They said early trade on Friday was tentative, however, after subdued manufacturing data in Britain, China and the eurozone but it then picked up after US figures surprised on the upside, sending Wall Street sharply higher. In London, the benchmark ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... Brussels bucked the trend to lose 0.48 per cent. Many fear that a default in Greece could lead to similar problems in other eurozone economies and potentially cause another global financial crisis. Shares in European banks, many of which are exposed ...

Better second half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... what? Else its European benefactors go to Plan B. That's what else. EU News reports an unnamed EU official that, " The eurozone is working on a contingency plan to save Greece from bankruptcy in case the parliament rejects an austerity programme demanded ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... open around one per cent lower today after US stocks fell due to fresh concerns about the financial stability of the eurozone. At 0629 AEST, the September share price index futures contract was down 41 points at 4,456 points, on volume of 4,544 contracts. ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... the lingering Greek tragedy and the European sovereign debt crisis saga. Reading as much as I could on Greece and the Eurozone over the weekend confirmed my early prediction that there's no way out for Greece but an honest-to-goodness default. It's just ...

Super funds urged to capitalise on Euro property yields

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011