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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... LONDON - European stocks slumped, spooked by US jobs data and a day after surging on clear signs that the European Central Bank and the Bank of England would keep interest rates low for some time. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of leading companies ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... other central banks to follow suit. Not the Bank of Japan - it's only just begun -- and certainly not the European Central Bank and the Bank of England. Both of 'em provided "forward guidance" after their policy meetings last week. Both couldn't be more ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
... Independence Day holiday overnight, and local investors have followed market gains in Europe, where the European Central Bank said it remained accommodative to stimulating economic growth. The ECB also said risks to economic growth in the Eurozone were ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on most European markets after the eurozone and British central banks signalled that stimulus measures would continue for some time and ahead of official US employment figures for June. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... 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 on track. LONDON - European stock markets fell in low volume ...

The others

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
It's RBA meeting day and the overwhelming consensus is for the Australian central bank to do nothing. Seems like pretty good odds to me. No doubt the Board would be talkin' bout talks of Fed tapering and yes, the talked about again China slowing as ...

Mother of all hard landings and other BSes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Australia appears to have started this new week, new month, new quarter new financial year with a little bit more stride in its steps. This could be because of the world's biggest central bankers' comforting ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... unexpected drop in German unemployment, solid data from the US and comments from a top Federal Reserve official that the central bank would not hastily end its stimulus program.. At 0800 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract ...

Once more from the top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... in the afterglow of central banks' reassurances. More so after the People's Bank of China (PBOC) and the European Central Bank (ECB) replayed those commitments...just in case they missed it the first time. In the case of China, the PBOC not only talked ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... Tuesday. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly rose as dealers welcomed another batch of strong US data while China's central bank said it had moved to ease a liquidity crisis that has gripped the country's financial markets. Traders breathed a sigh of relief ...