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Another October to remember?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... 2011 meeting, then took off when QE3 was announced on 13 September 2013. Shall we see QE history repeat? To be sure, the European sovereign debt crisis was upon us in 2010 and 2011. And in 2011, the Jasmine Revolution and Japan's earthquake/tsunami/nuclear ...

Down one day, dip buying the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... sales increase." (Bloomberg) To be sure, new scares our way would come... but the Fed's - and the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank and the Bank of England - explicit promise to keep policy accommodative for as long as necessary and that they ...

A BRICS R5 Bank is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... Developing countries now have their very own 'go to" bank - one that is not headed by an American like the World Bank or a European like the IMF - a development bank that better knows the intricacies of a developing economy. But far from being a competition ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... applications for Apple's iOS system, which will employ IBM's supercomputing analytics. Apple fell 0.6 per cent. LONDON - European stock markets have jumped higher owing to strong economic growth data from China and an improved picture in Portugal, dealers ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... be more rapid than currently envisioned" if labour market conditions continue to improve more than expected. LONDON - European equities have ended in the red after the head of the Federal Reserve warned it could raise rates faster than expected, adding ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... raising its near-zero benchmark interest rate for "a considerable time" after the asset-purchase program ends. LONDON - European stock markets have closed mixed, but most curbed two days of losses as investors awaited minutes of the US Federal Reserve's ...

Run with bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... Mario Draghi's comforting words. Just last night, Super Mario told the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg that, "We will maintain a high degree of monetary policy accommodation. In view of the outlook ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... Santo International is Banco Espirito Santo SA's parent company. The fallout across Europe brought back memories of the European sovereign debt crisis. Lisbon's stock market, of course, bore the brunt - down 3.7% on the day. But big fall were also registered ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... raising its near-zero benchmark interest rate for "a considerable time" after the asset-purchase program ends. LONDON - European stock markets have closed mixed, but most curbed two days of losses as investors awaited minutes of the US Federal Reserve's ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... director Jeffrey Saut said in a note stocks are vulnerable to a 10-12 per cent decline in the weeks ahead. LONDON - Key European stock markets slipped, getting the week off to a weak start as investors book profits and frown at poor German economic data. ...