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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... BRUSSELS - The European Commission has warned the eurozone's debt burden is dragging down eurozone growth as finance ministers headed for talks aimed at bridging splits over the crisis. WASHINGTON - IMF chief Christine Lagarde is pressing US and European ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... 110-billion euro rescue package to avoid a default. EU Economy Commissioner Olli Rehn welcomed the move, but European finance ministers are split over how to deal with obstacles holding up a second 160-billion-euro bailout for Greece, agreed in principle ...

Not looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... batten down the hatches and accept that things will worsen before they become better. We heard from the G-7 finance ministers' pow-wow in Marseilles, France last Friday - blah, blah and more blah. "We met at a time of new challenges to... growth, fiscal ...

Earnings, debt ceiling and debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... if America does. But speaking of Greece - and Euro contagion -positive reports are coming out of there too. Finance ministers are meeting on 21 July - the second in one month - to discuss "the financial stability of the euro area as a whole and the future ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... weak domestic consumer sentiment data, before the upbeat news from China pushed the local unit higher. Eurozone finance ministers met overnight to discuss Europe's debt crisis and ongoing contagion concerns. Locally, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... country's austerity measures helped ease those fears. Investors also felt some relief after a meeting of 17 European finance ministers on Monday resulted in a statement that implied they were open to buying distressed Greek bonds. LONDON - European shares ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... a deeply unpopular package of austerity cuts needed to satisfy the International Monetary Fund and eurozone finance ministers. The Dow has risen for four straight days amid optimism that Europe and the IMF will succeed in their plan to prevent a Greek ...

European authorities will blink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... financial markets yesterday when news spread that the seven-hour Greek problem-solving marathon of European finance ministers produced a "too hard, we'll try again next month" conclusion. For the life of me, I don't understand why these moneymen of Europe ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... expected. In Europe, protests swelled in Greece over the government's austerity measures. On Tuesday, eurozone finance ministers failed to reach accord at talks on a second bailout package to avert a Greek debt default. The US stock markets appeared ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... said the minutes didn't seem to support the case for an imminent cash rate rise. Overnight (AEST), European finance ministers backed an EU-IMF bailout of Portugal worth 78 billion euros ($A104.45 billion). With Greece's debt woes still unresolved, Ms ...