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The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... the ECB still had the Securities Market Programme (SMP) in place that would allow it to purchase government bonds from euro area member countries. Back home, calls are growing for our own central bank to stop hinting at a rate cut and just do it to reverse ...

Wobble gobbles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... the economy to a slower but more sustainable growth pace. And pussycat, what's also new about the deceleration in the euro area manufacturing and services PMI reading to 48.7 this month from 49.3 in February? We already know that most member nations ...

Australia's Apple

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... will equal that of the United States, in purchasing-power parity terms, in about a decade. It will exceed that of the euro area within the next few years." How good is that? Australians all let us rejoice.

Smackdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... rise in Europe. The European Commission reported last night that, "Economic sentiment increases in both the EU and the euro area" to 94.4 in February - the second straight month of increase in its Economic Sentiment Indicator - against 93.4 in the previous ...

Thrilla in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... and continued low confidence, real GDP is expected to remain unchanged in the EU (0.0%) and to shrink by 0.3% in the euro area in 2012. This constitutes a downward revision of 0.6 pp in the EU and 0.8 percentage points in the euro area compared to the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... Austria. Moody's said the nine nations were more susceptible to increasing financial and macroeconomic risks from the euro area crisis. Making news on Tuesday, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto said the pair would spend $US4 billion ($A3.75 billion) to increase ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... global growth outlook would be worse than it was in 2011 - the World Bank recently reminded us of this - and that the euro area could be just one event away from disintegration and that the roof would fall over China's housing market. It'll be another ...

Dream on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
... "In substance, 'the agreement' offers few new measures, and does not change our view that risks to the cohesion of the euro area continue to rise." Standard & Poor's Chief Economist Jean-Michel Six: "Let's not raise expectations too high, there will ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... restore long term confidence in the euro. The leaders of France and Germany, the two strongest economic powers in the euro area, have called for a new European Union treaty designed to avert another crisis by imposing greater fiscal discipline on member ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... Eurozone bonds, this crisis they're (we're) having now would just have been all but imagined. The caveat, however, is that euro area member countries continue to push through austerity measures. Lower yields would allow the Eurozone to go about their ...