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Eurozone to craft a reforms roadmap

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... we would find ourselves in a situation which would be infinitely more complicated," Moscovici told French television on Sunday. Tsipras' Syriza party surprised Europe on May 6 by placing second in an inconclusive election in which no party was able to ...

Fearing the unknown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... picked a president in Paris. Whereas the Greeks look like they'll have to trek to election booths one more time as last Sunday resulted in none of the political parties garnering enough votes to form a government. Come to think of it, perhaps that's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... cent) to 1,369.58, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 1.42 (0.05 per cent) at 2,957.76. In both France and Greece voters on Sunday turned out the existing leadership and strongly backed parties opposed to austerity programs aimed at fixing their budget ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... mixed signals on the global economy. Investors also remained cautious before the French presidential election run-off on Sunday, with incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy trailing Francois Hollande, who says he wants to review a recent eurozone fiscal pact. Sydney ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... 2,029.29 and Sydney slipped 0.14 per cent, or 5.9 points, to 4,329.3. Shanghai was closed for a public holiday. China said on Sunday that manufacturing activity in March hit its highest level for 12 months, tempering recent concerns of a sharp slowdown ...

Cheque's not yet in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... between the troika and the Greek government on the programme as well as the positive vote of the Greek Parliament last Sunday. "At the same time, following today's Eurogroup Working Group meeting, it has appeared that further technical work between Greece ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... the government of new Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. Monti's cabinet gave its go-ahead to the crisis-busting plan on Sunday, estimating that it would save 20 billion euros ($A26.29 billion) but warning that it would not prevent the economy from ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... continued to rise despite the election of a new leadership to govern the country. The Popular Party won government at last Sunday's election, winning 186 seats of the 350-seat parliament. Moody's warned France... again. While it noted that the country's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... evening trading from 6.345 per cent at the close on Friday. Spain's right stormed to its biggest election victory ever on Sunday, winning over voters desperate for an end to soaring unemployment and the eurozone debt storm. A rise in the borrowing rate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... attention turned to Spain, seen as the next mostly likely eurozone country to be tested by the markets. Monti was nominated on Sunday to replace Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister and he pledged to get to work on tackling a crippling debt crisis in ...