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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... German gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.2 per cent in the June quarter prompting speculation the European Central Bank would have to roll out stimulus measures. No major local economic news is expected on Friday. In equities news, ANZ is ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... market expectations and well below the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) target of 3.5%. This would give the Chinese central bank plenty of scope to ease monetary policy if necessary to achieve Premier Li Keqiang's 7.5% economic growth target. Not that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... 6,597.37 points after the Bank of England also chose to hold its key interest rate at a record low. The European Central Bank held its key interest rates unchanged at 0.15 per cent at its regular policy meeting on Thursday, two months after easing monetary ...

All about the slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... Bank Rate at 0.5%. The Committee also voted to maintain the stock of purchased assets financed by the issuance of central bank reserves at A£375 billion." That's right... the same as it was last month, and the month before and before that and...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... reports Russia is massing troops on the Ukraine border has been heightened as it couples with anticipation the US central bank is signalling the beginning of its rate hiking cycle. CMC chief market analyst Ric Spooner said differences of opinion about ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." These were the words that came out of the European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi's lips barely two months ago, straight after the ECB announced a 10 bps reduction in the repo ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... week. That's because there is a number of major events in the next three days that investors are waiting for." The US central bank meets on Wednesday (US time) while the quarterly US economic growth data is also set to be released. China will provide ...

Another October to remember?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
Headlines upon headlines remains littered with MH17 and what happens next as the international community vents its anger on Russia. 'twas these headlines that reportedly downed Wall Street overnight. But we surely know what comes after the dip, 'eh ...

Down one day, dip buying the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... increase." (Bloomberg) To be sure, new scares our way would come... but the Fed's - and the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank and the Bank of England - explicit promise to keep policy accommodative for as long as necessary and that they would ...

Yellen yawn turn to Yellen yikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
It was to be a non-event. Financial markets didn't expect the head of the world's biggest and mightiest central bank to deviate much - if at all - from her rhetoric of days gone by - when she delivers her semi-annual testimony on US monetary policy ...