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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... to keep its current ultra-low benchmark interest rate in place until mid-2015, and said it would continue its monetary easing efforts until it saw substantial improvement in the jobs market. LONDON - European stock markets mostly fell as dealers waited ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... expect will deliver fresh stimulus to kick-start the economy. Comments from China's prime minister hinting at monetary easing also gave a fillip, while traders were confident of a positive verdict in Germany as judges were set to rule on whether Berlin ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... KONG - Asian markets mostly rose after more weak Chinese manufacturing data fuelled hopes for a fresh round of monetary easing by Beijing. The downbeat figures out of China added to expectations of more stimulus measures in the United States following ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... Paris's CAC 40 gained 0.86 per cent to 3,462.83 points, following a call by senior US Fed official for immediate monetary easing. The London stock exchange was closed on Monday for a bank holiday. In Milan the FTSE MIB index rose 0.89 per cent, while ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... mixed, with Tokyo the best performer as the yen weakened against the dollar owing to dimming expectations of fresh monetary easing by the US Federal Reserve. With few catalysts to drive action during the holiday season, trade was light on Thursday, although ...

Return to surplus may hit big business

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... not be considered a fait accompli. "Even though we're in a position at the moment where the Reserve bank is in a monetary easing phase, where interest rates are on a downward projection, there's no indication at all that households will spend the savings ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... Spain's credit rating had been slashed. The yen strengthened despite the Bank of Japan announcing another round of monetary easing as it tries to kickstart the torpid economy. Tokyo closed 0.43 per cent, or 40.94 points, lower at 9,520.89 as a huge spike ...

Market Wrap-Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... 21,010.64 while Shanghai closed 1.19 per cent, or 28.23 points, higher at 2,406.86 on hopes China will announce monetary easing measures soon after comments to that effect from a central bank official this week. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index fell 8.95 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... KONG - Hong Kong and Chinese shares have risen as below forecast growth figures from China lifted hopes of fresh monetary easing by Beijing. The Hang Seng Index on Friday added 1.84 per cent, or 373.72 points, to close at 20,701.04 on turnover of HK$61.87 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... Monday. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said markets were inclined to respect the power of Chinese monetary easing, with many considering those measures made potentially the greatest contribution to pulling the world economies out of the ...