Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 6, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) – Stocks, commodity prices and the dollar moved higher on Friday while safe-haven government bonds fell after better-than-expected U.S. jobs data for December confirmed the recovery in the world’s biggest economy is strengthening.
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LONDON (Reuters) – The euro was under pressure and safe-haven assets in demand on Friday on signs that fallout from the euro zone’s debt crisis is hitting its banks, but hopes U.S. jobs data later in the day would brighten the economic outlook lifted stocks.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 3, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) – A mass ratings downgrade of euro zone countries expected early this year is likely to increase selling pressure on French and Italian government debt, but could paradoxically consolidate Germany’s safe-haven status.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Better-than-expected data from China’s giant manufacturing sector boosted global stocks and the euro on Tuesday and pushed safe-haven bets like German bonds lower.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 25, 2011
ROME/MADRID (Reuters) – Italy’s borrowing costs soared to their highest levels since Rome joined the euro on Friday, piling pressure on the newly installed government of Mario Monti at the end of a week in which the euro zone crisis tainted even safe haven Germany.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 17, 2011
LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks dipped to a one-week low on Thursday and the euro held near a five-week trough while safe-haven German bonds rose, as concerns grew over spillover damage to U.S. banks from the euro zone sovereign debt crisis.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on September 22, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A grim economic outlook from the U.S. Federal Reserve and signs of slowing growth in China and Germany drove world stocks down more than 4 percent on Thursday, prodding investors into the safe-haven U.S. dollar and government bonds.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on September 6, 2011
ZURICH (Reuters) – The Swiss National Bank shocked markets on Tuesday by setting an exchange rate cap on the soaring franc to stave off a recession, discouraging investors anxious about flagging global growth from using the currency as a safe haven.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on September 1, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Insatiable demand for safe haven U.S. government bonds is helping mask a potentially huge financial problem — the need to extend the maturity of debt issued by the United States.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on August 30, 2011
LONDON (Reuters) – Global stocks rose to their highest in nearly two weeks on Tuesday, while safe haven assets like the Swiss franc and German Bunds were subdued, encouraged by signs that the U.S. economy was not headed toward a recession as yet.
