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Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... Putin and indications of more slowdown in China and the PBOC's latest counter-response and speculation of European Central Bank (ECB) QE. These issues du jour have relegated the goings-on in the world's third biggest economy, Japan -- the Land of the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... keep interest rates near zero well into 2015. LONDON - Europe's stock markets have risen, boosted by hopes the US central bank will keep its monetary policy loose and expectations that Scotland will vote to stay part of the United Kingdom. London's benchmark ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... cent) to 4,562.19. The Dow bolted as high as 17,221.11 soon after a Fed statement did not change the language the central bank has been using to signal its rate plans, saying any increase will happen only a "considerable time" after the October end to ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... providing $US81.4 billion ($A88.1 billion) in liquidity to China's five largest banks. "There's a report that the Chinese central bank is boosting its stimulus program," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank. "That, combined with ...

"Considerable time", is it a-changin'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... why: "The U.S. economy has been steadily improving, and many asset markets thriving, in the low-rate era. If the central bank moves too soon to raise interest rates, it could choke off the recovery. But if it waits too long, it risks encouraging too ...

Liberalise economy or prepare for war, warns economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
Governments must slash corporate, income and capital gains tax, wind back environmental reforms and break up the big banks if they want to recover from the "global depression", bestselling author and economist James G. Rickards has told superannuation ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... September 2009) -- threatening to turn into outright deflation, financial markets are just as happy that the European Central Bank (ECB) is doing something, anything, to counteract/reverse this state of affairs. Yes Virginia, it wasn't the ECB doing ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... the market were lower at noon, and trading volumes were down. Investors are waiting for a meeting of the European Central Bank on Thursday night, which some believe could result in new stimulus measures for the eurozone economy. In the US, unemployment ...

No drama at the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... all that work (replete with 'Boxes' -- A, B & C - charts and tables) "finalised on 7 August 2014," the Australian central bank turns around and changes course? I don't think anyone can accuse the RBA of being stupid (although Bloomberg columnist, William ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... of rising prices amid a range of headwinds. Worries about Europe's poorly performing economies and whether or not central bank stimulus will be announced next week is weighing on traders, along with falling commodity prices. Asian markets were falling ...