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Market to open flat

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... to $US1.0855 from $US1.0875 late on Thursday in New York. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly rose after the European Central Bank boosted emergency aid to Greece and eurozone chiefs agreed a bridging loan to the country, while Hong Kong and Shanghai rallied ...

Oxi Oxi Oxi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... philosophers. The question: "Should the plan of agreement, which was submitted by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund in the Eurogroup of 25.06.2015 and is comprised of two parts that constitute their ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... members. Of these, 19 belong to the Eurozone, a common currency region whose monetary policy falls under the European Central Bank (ECB) but whose fiscal policy mostly depends on the individual countries. It is no surprise then that fund managers never ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... Wall Street stocks have risen following a wave of mostly solid US data and a fresh confirmation of that the European Central Bank's economic stimulus program will continue. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 64.33 points (0.36 per cent) on Wednesday ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... spending. A jammed economic calendar this week includes May auto sales, the May jobs report and meetings of the European Central Bank and Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Dow member Microsoft rose 0.8 per cent after announcing it will ...

Don't put all QE in the same basket: AXA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... impact in the real economy, Tinker said. But QE is not having an impact on the European economy yet. The European Central Bank (ECB) is "buying the long dated bonds. But institutions are not recycling that cash back into the real economy and that's one ...

Tug o' currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... "enough is enough and enough is too much". The euro has strengthened enough and it's become too much for the European Central Bank (ECB). Enter Executive Board member BenoA(R)t CoeurA(C) announcing that, "The Eurosystem is taking this [less market liquidity ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... the coming months, including around another 2 billion euros to the IMF and nearly 7 billion euros to the European Central Bank. HONG KONG - Asian markets closed mostly higher on Monday after a healthy US jobs report last week. Investor sentiment was ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... which reports earnings on Wednesday. LONDON - Eurozone stocks have tumbled on fears of an early end to the European Central Bank's economic stimulus program and a spike in tensions over the Greek crisis. Frankfurt's DAX 30 index tumbled 2.51 per cent ...

That elusive 6000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... dollar. It's now fetching US$0.7866 up from this year's low of US$0.7533. As the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the European Central Bank (ECB) and every other "accommodating" central bank would tell you, we don't want that. And then there's piece of negative ...