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Any reason will do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... thought. Are the days of wine and roses going? Gone? Turns out it was all because of this statement by ECB President Mario Draghi: On the exchange rate, the first thing is that the appreciation is, in a sense, a sign of the return of confidence in the ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... lower following the lead of international markets overnight after comments from European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi. At 0646 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was DOWN 11 points at 4,883. In comments at a press ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
... single currency had hit a near 11-month high against the greenback following positive comments last week by ECB chief Mario Draghi on the outlook for the eurozone. HONG KONG - Asian shares were mixed on a lack of direction from Wall Street, but Tokyo ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013
... match its highest close in five years. The Nasdaq composite was down one point at 3,105. European Central Bank head Mario Draghi said the struggling euro zone should start growing again later this year, but he warned that the region has yet to reach ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... expected the ECB to hold fire on interest rates at its last policy meeting of 2012, but the revelation by ECB head Mario Draghi that some members of the governing council supported a rate cut was enough for markets to take pause though milestones were ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... by a surprise drop in the US unemployment rate and on the back of upbeat comments from European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi. At the close on Friday, London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies was 0.74 per cent higher at 5,871.02 points. In Frankfurt ...

Ben's turn to be super

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... financial marketeers were convinced he talked about it last month at Jackson Hole, will he now walk his talk -- ala Mario Draghi - and save the world? By now you would have read about the pieces of bad news that is good news - the bad economic indicators ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... fully effective backstop for removing the tail risk of Europe." With these words, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi put a stop to months of speculation, hearsays and guesswork. Mario announced an open-ended bond buying programme which, henceforth ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... 0813 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up 52 points at 4,369. Under ECB chief Mario Draghi's revamped program, the central bank will buy bonds issued by heavily indebted euro-zone countries in a scheme named Outright ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... points at 4,295. The European Central Bank is due to meeting on Thursday (European time), with all eyes on president Mario Draghi for new measures to fight the region's stubborn debt crisis. In local economic news on Thursday, The Australian Bureau of ...