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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... investors are also "nervous" at the drop in treasury bond yields as demand for fixed-income investments picks up. LONDON - European equities fell as investors digested gloomy eurozone data showing anaemic economic growth for the first quarter of the ...

AMP Capital increases stake in Alpha Trains

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... Europe and the Americas Boe Pahari said. "During the past 12 months, we have witnessed increasing market activity in the European train leasing market making AMP Capital an early mover in this attractive investment sector." The current Alpha Trains portfolio ...

BNP Paribas signs up to TARGET 2

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... 'directly connected participant' of the TARGET 2 Securities (TS2) settlement program. The TARGET 2 - which stands for Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement express transfer system - is an initiative that provides a single platform for securities ...

Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... central banks can afford to stay on the sidelines for now - both have decent growth and decent inflation. Not so for the European Central Bank (ECB) with the region's growth still a crawl and with deflation threatening and the euro's continued appreciation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... 1,878.48, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index outperformed, gaining 20.37 (0.50 per cent) at 4,071.88. LONDON - European stock markets and the euro sank on profit-taking as investors took their leads from company updates and economic data, while ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... utility and energy stocks. Mr McCarthy said the US markets had flattened out after markets mulled over comments from European Central Bank president Mario Draghi that flagged potential stimulus measures for Europe. "The possibility of that occurring ...

Action! in June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi appears to have dragged out his promised action on monetary policy long enough. While the ECB announced no changes in monetary policy after its Governing Council meeting last night - the benchmark rate at ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... per cent), Facebook (-1.1 per cent) and Apple (-0.7 per cent). LONDON - Europe's main stock markets closed higher after European Central Bank president Mario Draghi hinted that policymakers were prepared to cut rates in June. The euro hit a two-and-a-half-year ...

Insurers upping risk to combat low yields

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... surveyed believe private equity will be the best performing asset class in 2014. Insurers also expect US equities and European equities to deliver strong relative returns. CIOs plan to increase allocations to asset classes that can offer higher total ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... Germany's DAX 30 lost 0.65 per cent to 9,467.53 points and the CAC 40 in Paris dropped 0.78 per cent to 4,428.07 points. "European markets traded in the red today despite positive service sector reports from the UK and the mainland as Barclays reported ...