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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... cent) to 2,101.04, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index gained 15.67 (0.32 per cent) at 4,982.81. The European Central Bank announced it would launch on Monday a 1.1 trillion euros ($A1.56 trillion) bond-buying program. The ECB also raised its ...

My QE, your problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... instalment of the ECB's QE worth a,-60 billion, and a,-60 billion monthly hereafter until September 2016. The European Central Bank (ECB) unveiled the details of its trillion euro quantitative easing programme last night. Special thanks to Bloomberg ...

No board meeting necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
Central bank surprises continue. This week started with the People's Bank of China (PBOC) surprising with a weekend announcement that it is lowering both its benchmark one-year lending rate and one-year deposit rate by 25 basis points each to 5.35% ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... Reserve Bank of Australia left its interest rate on hold. Those stocks were sold off "fairly savagely" following the central bank's decision to leave the cash rate on hold at a record low of 2.25 per cent, Mr Lucas said. "It's not normal that you see ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... continues in Sydney. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed lower after the central bank unexpectedly left the cash rate on hold. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 25 points, or 0.42 per cent, at 5,933.9. ...

I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... re-investing the proceeds of its asset purchases), the Bank of Japan (BOJ) that's in the midst of QE or the European Central Bank (ECB) that's about to kick-off its QE, perhaps as early as this week. Not surprisingly, in spite of widespread expectations ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... The Fed can't afford to let the already strengthening dollar get stronger even more -- not with every other world central bank lowering their interest rates and depreciating their exchange rates. The Fed won't sit idly by and let its neighbours beggar ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... of this," he added. US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen also hinted in testimony to US lawmakers this week the central bank was in no hurry to raise interest rates. HONG KONG - Asian markets have largely risen as Tokyo hit a fresh 15-year high, driven ...

China easing a tailwind for A-share market

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... what we've seen in the past several years and past economic cycles in China," Iwanicki said just days after China's central bank lowered lenders' reserve ratio by 50 basis points in a move to inject more liquidity into the Chinese economy. "Traditionally ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... Australian market looks set to open higher following rises on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve chief indicated the US central bank was in no hurry to raise its interest rate. At 0833 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract ...