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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013
... Chancellor Angela Merkel's weekend election win in Germany - also retreated on Tuesday after the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) aired concerns about interest rates. Tokyo edged down 9.81 points to 14,732.61 on its first day of trading after ...

CFA to host Australia Investment Conference in Melbourne

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... key threats, opportunities and implications for investment professionals. The opening keynote address 'The great central bank unwind,' will be delivered by Dr William Pool, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. The conference is aimed at major players ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013
... would likely be more cautious about winding back the Fed's $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program - a key part of central bank's stimulus efforts - which is good news for markets. "She's seen really as somebody who is a fellow traveller to Dr Bernanke ...

EM correction, it's different this time

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
Despite the recent shake out in emerging markets due to the rebounding USD, the stronger ones are positioned fundamentally differently to how they were in 1997 and should absorb this latest correction. US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke repeatedly ...

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... repercussions...You have to expect everything." It's a shame that this is happening almost to the day when European Central Bank President Mario Draghi announced the technical framework of his Outright Monetary Transactions (OMTs) programme on 6 September ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... rose on solid economic data from the US as traders digested rate decisions from the Bank of England and the European Central Bank. Dealers also tracked developments in St Petersburg, Russia where a G20 summit about the world economy was being overshadowed ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... Reserve's "Beige Book", which gives a read of US regional economic conditions and could provide clues on whether the central bank is likely to taper its aggressive bond-buying stimulus program. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ended Wednesday up 0.10 ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... interest rate decision at 1430 AEST on Tuesday was unlikely to have much of an impact on the market, because the central bank is widely expected to keep the cash rate on hold. Among the major banks at 1020 AEST, the National Australia Bank was up 19 ...

Delay of execution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... looming this fall." "Taken together, the developments have eroded the conviction of most Fed watchers that the U.S. central bank would start backing off its $85-billion-a-month bond buying program, known as quantitative easing, or QE, at its September ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
... following falls on Wall Street after minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting gave no more clarity on the central bank's plans for its stimulus program. At 0755 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was down 41 points ...