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Gold as an "insurance" against inflation: Lazard

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
Gold can be a good "insurance policy" against inflation as global central banks are following a policy of quantitative easing (QE) that could devalue the money, according to Lazard. Lazard portfolio manager of Global Thematic Equity Nicholas Bratt expressed ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... major overseas markets following Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to congress and the release of the central bank's policy meeting minutes. At 0750 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down 16 points at 5,086. ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... investors took their cues from a weak finish on Wall Street after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke suggested the central bank may soon ease its stimulatory measures. Australian stocks extended those early falls to be more than 1.5 per cent lower ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... forecasts below-average economic growth in 2013. RBS Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell said the minutes of the central bank's May 7 board meeting, at which it cut the cash rate to a record low, had prompted investors to reconsider the outlook for ...

Breaking the bad in the eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... shrinking. And oh, the unemployment rate was clocked at a record high of 12.1% in March. It could be due to the European Central Bank's (ECB) 25 basis point interest rate reduction last month that took interest rates to an all-time low of 0.50%. It could ...

Will stocks follow Fed exit to the exits?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... market. But I don't get how this is consistent with its broadcast statement only a forthnight before where the US central bank made it known to the world that, "the Committee is prepared to increase or reduce the pace of its purchases to maintain appropriate ...

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... one-month highs against the euro and the New Zealand dollar (helped by RBNZ Governor Graeme Wheeler's confession that the central bank has intervened in the currency markets to slow the NZ$'s ascent), eight-month highs against the Swiss franc, and, of ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... decision on interest rates. Economists are widely expecting the cash rate to stay unchanged at three per cent when the central bank meets on Tuesday afternoon. But major bank stocks opened weaker, with the Commonwealth Bank shedding 0.5 per cent to $71.31 ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... report drove major gains in the leading indices. Stocks also got an upward boost from fresh comments by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, who said the ECB could take additional steps if economic conditions warranted, Peter Cardillo of Rockwell ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... investors balanced mostly gloomy eurozone economic data against growing hopes of an interest rate cut from the European Central Bank, dealers say. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies gave up 0.43 per cent to 6,430.12 points, the Paris CAC 40 slid ...