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Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... cent even as the government's borrowing costs surged in a short-term 3.983 billion euros ($A4.97 billion) debt auction. Italian stocks ended the day 0.41 per cent higher after Milan also paid rising rates in an otherwise successful 5.437-billion-euro ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... to 5.60 per cent, compared with record unsustainable highs above 7.60 per cent in July. The return on benchmark 10-year Italian government bonds slid to nearly 5.0 per cent. Germany's DAX 30 gained 0.46 per cent to 7343.53 points, while in Paris the ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... January 2008; the Stoxx 50 jumped by 3.4% (Spanish shares up 4.9% and Italians up 4.35); Yields on 10-year Spanish and Italian bonds sank by 38 bps and 25 bps, respectively; the VIX index dropped by 12.1% to 15.60 - they liked what they heard. For unlike ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... Spain's long-term borrowing costs rose further, while Milan dropped 1.09 per cent in value despite another successful Italian bond auction. A sharp drop in eurozone business and consumer confidence, down by 1.8 points from July to 86.1 points in a fifth ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... to 7002.68 points and in Paris the CAC 40 fell 0.90 per cent to 3431.55 points. Spanish shares lost 0.88 per cent and Italian stocks slipped 0.13 per cent. The euro increased to $US1.2561, compared with $US1.2497 late in New York on Monday. HONG KONG ...

Double A USA - the scare that wasn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... bobbing up and down on every blah that comes out of anybody who's somebody's lips. I don't think anybody could argue that Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is somebody. Thus, when he blahed to Germany's Spiegel magazine that, "The tensions that have ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... 40 climbed 0.81 per cent to 3,401.56 points. Madrid leapt by 4.41 per cent and Milan added 1.54 per cent. The yield on Italian 10-year bonds dipped to 6.004 per cent from 6.048 per cent on Friday. The euro hit a one-month high at $US1.2444 in Asian trading ...

Maybe next month

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... September. To repeat, hope springs oh so eternal that even reports that Standard & Poor's "downgraded a broad swath of Italian banks, citing worries that the recession in the euro zone's third-largest economy could mean mounting losses for the country's ...

If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... 0.7% and the DJ Euro Stoxx 50 closed 3% lower overnight led by a 5.2% sell-off in Spanish equities and a 4.6% drop in Italian shares. Similarly, Spanish 10-year bond yields are back above 7% after dropping to as low as 6.6% on Draghi's promise (threat?). ...