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When Harry met Sally syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... surprise (because it was handed down 2 weeks before its scheduled meeting) rate cut announcement. Then it was the Danish central bank's turn to surprise by cutting its deposit rate from minus 0.05% to minus 0.2% on 19 January, and again to minus 0.35% ...

A Fed surprise?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... to raise interest rates sometime this year - and quantitative easing by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the European Central Bank (ECB) leaves markets no other option but to catch a ride with greenback. Financial markets appear to be sanguine about the BOJ ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... pricing) from 25% just over a week ago. What changed? What changed was that between then and last week, the European Central Bank (ECB) QE'd and the Bank of Canada (BOC) announced a surprise rate cut. Ipso facto, the RBA could (must?) too. Why must our ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... Day public holiday. On Friday, the local market posted its biggest weekly gain in two years, helped by the European Central Bank's bigger-than-expected stimulus package. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 81.9 points, or 1.51 per cent, to 5,501.8 points. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
The share market is more than one per cent higher after the European Central Bank announced measures to boost the eurozone's ailing economy. The ECB will buy 60 billion euros ($A85 billion) worth of private and public sector bonds per month between ...

AMP Capital issues deflation warning

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
AMP Capital head of investment strategy and chief economist Shane Oliver has warned investors to be wary of deflation but is optimistic that any ill effects will be short-lived. "In the current environment sustained deflation could cause problems. Falling ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... week, while energy stocks benefitted from improvements in crude oil prices. Traders are also optimistic the European Central Bank will vote on Thursday to buy about 50 billion euros ($A72 billion) worth of bonds a month for at least a year as a stimulus ...

Central bank surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... Surprises, surprises, and more surprises. We're yet to complete the first month of 2015 and thus far, we've gotten central bank surprises a-plenty... and they're not kinder surprises either. We've seen the Swiss National Bank (SNB) stomp the CHF1.20/euro ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... solid gains, buoyed by a strong production report from global miner BHP Billiton and expectations that the European Central Bank will take steps to boost the euro zone's sputtering economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 85.7 points, or 1.61 per ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... contract was up 23 points at 5,281. Europe's leading stock markets got a boost from expectations of further European Central Bank stimulus and better investor confidence in Germany. Locally, mining giant BHP Billiton releases its December quarter production ...