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The Infrastructure Fund reaches into Europe

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... Hastings formed a consortium with Allianz Capital Partners and Alberta Investment Management Corporation and EDF Invest to purchase Porterbrook. Porterbrook owns and manages approximately 5,900 passenger and freight rolling stock, which represents about ...

Goodbye QE, hello QQE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... A¥70 trillion - this equates to around US$709 billion based on Friday's US$/yen exchange of A¥112.83). "The Bank will purchase JGBs so that their amount outstanding will increase at an annual pace of about 80 trillion yen (an addition of about 30 trillion ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... renewed doubts over recent stress tests on the eurozone bank sector. But losses were later capped by the ECB's asset purchase announcement. The euro was trading at $US1.2624, down from $1.2634 in New York late on Wednesday. HONG KONG - Asian markets ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat following falls on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve confirmed it would end its asset-buying program. At 0808 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up two points at 5,431. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after Wall Street rose on upbeat US consumer confidence. The US consumer confidence index has leapt from 89.0 in September to 94.5 in October, giving US equities a solid boost overnight. The positive sentiment ...

ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... expected to start buying asset backed securities later this year, and rumoured to be eyeing corporate bonds for its next purchase. The problem with all these is... the tight supply. According to reports, there's not much for the ECB to buy in order to ...

UBS launches borrow-to-buy share vehicle

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... of Australian shares through a limited recourse loan with no margin calls. UBS Investment Builders allow investors to purchase shares, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and listed managed funds by paying a portion of the underlying security price themselves ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
"Having money isn't everything, not having it is." - Kanye West Nah Virginia, at my (middle) age, I'm not one who enjoys hip hop, techno, punk, goth or beats... let alone rap. But yankee-doodle-dandy rapper Kanye's words aptly describe the fall and ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... European Central Bank (ECB) governing council member BenoA(R)t CA"urA(C)'s jaw: "We will start within the next days to purchase the assets that are foreseen under our new purchase programs, with the objective to steer the balance sheet of the ECB to ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... overnight from the Federal Reserve Bank's St Louis president Jamie Bullard suggesting that the US not scale back its asset purchase stimulus program at the end of this month have driven gains. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the gains in Australian ...