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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... lower at 4,786 points. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia publishes the minutes of March 2 monetary policy meeting. In equities news, National Australia Bank releases a market update, while the 2010 Paydirt Gold Conference continues ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... we're still at a level where the positives are not fully priced in.' He also noted that the positive impact of monetary policy and lower oil prices are being underestimated and that the corporate bond market has improved in 2009. Perhaps we are living ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... sales. The Nikkei newspaper reported that the BOJ has begun examining a further easing of its already ultra-loose monetary policy and may make a decision on such a move as early as this month. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index finished up 223.24 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... remaining stubbornly high, which would require the Fed to stay on its stimulative path, doing little to change monetary policy. At settlement, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 91.75 points higher, by 0.89 per cent, at 10,374.16. The technology-rich ...

Penny for Benny's thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... and 25th. A penny for Ben's thoughts. All eyes and ears would be on Big Benny for clues on the outlook for US monetary policy, particularly given last week's decision by the Fed to lift the discount rate by 25 bps to 0.75 per cent and the shortening ...

Baby steps

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... financial conditions for households and businesses and do not signal any change in the outlook for the economy or for monetary policy, which remains about as it was at the January meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)." Reports told of ...

Asia unseats South Africa in gold race

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... Investor demand will come amid fears of a double dip recession, continuing huge government deficits, very loose monetary policy and a belief that "...notable, if not runaway, inflation is set to return", said the report. The consequences to gold prices ...

RBA mixes its game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... remain lower than average. If economic conditions evolve broadly as expected, the Board considers it likely that monetary policy will, over time, need to be adjusted further in order to ensure that inflation remains consistent with the target over the ...

No pleasing Mr. Market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... Min told the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. "We'll continue with current accommodative fiscal and monetary policy" in order to ensure that the 8 per cent to 9 per cent "growth path is stable all the year along." State of the Union. In his ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... trade, but later lost ground in response to the yen's strength against the US dollar ahead of a US Federal Reserve monetary policy decision and President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. Toyota shares lost 4.26 per cent after the company said ...