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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... overall employment figures, due out this week, and, later on Monday, European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi's speech on monetary policy in the troubled eurozone. The big miners were all weaker on Monday morning, with BHP Billiton down 42 cents to $31.18 ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... provided "forward guidance" after their policy meetings last week. Both couldn't be more explicit that their respective monetary policies would remain stimulative for a while longer. The minutes of the 18-19 June FOMC meeting could produce another bout ...

Guiding it forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013

Ghosts? What ghosts?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... pay to run away when the going got tough. For, in hindsight, events like these only provided profitable entry points as monetary and fiscal authorities ramp up counter policy measures. Then again, I might just be dreamin' and it's those heavy stuff they ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... minister resigned in the wake of the finance minister, and after a report that Greece's bailout lenders, the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank, had given Athens three days to demonstrate its reforms were still ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... 3,403.25. The muddled close followed a three-day rally as worries eased that the Federal Reserve could move to tighten monetary policy sooner than had been expected. LONDON - European stock markets fell, as traders banked profits from the week's strong ...

Oh how welcome thy voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... appear to have been quieted by soothing words from central bankers. We've already read about the calming statements on monetary policy from Fed presidents Dudley (NY), Kocherlakota (Minneapolis) and Fischer (Dallas). See http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/33240890 ...

China's rebalancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... 2013 Annual General Meeting in Basel, Switzerland that "financial stability is a necessary prerequisite for an effective monetary policy". Minneapolis Fed head honcho Naranaya Kocherlakota released a statement arguing that the Fed "should continue to ...

The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... partner. Poor Europe for this couldn't come at a worse time - a time when news just hit cyberspace that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) threatened to suspend aid payments to Greece and Cyprus requesting to renegotiate the terms of its bailout. ...

State Street appoints head of active investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... "The markets of today are fundamentally different than those of the past due to the financial crisis and unprecedented monetary intervention, which has impacted investment returns and interest rates," Powers said. State Street is one of the world's biggest ...