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Fool's gold?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... ($523 million) of "excess" gold reserves". Not a big deal. It plans to sell about 10.4 metric tonnes of the Cypriot central bank's total hoard of 13.9 metric tonnes of the metal. That's' just 1.9% of total gold purchases made by world central banks last ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
... session since a long weekend closure, while Hong Kong was flat, edging down 8.85 points to 21,718.05. The Japanese central bank's announcement last week of a new wave of monetary easing has sent the yen tumbling about six per cent against the dollar. ...

BOJ brings out big bazooka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... calculations are correct (hope so), the BOJ's purchases amount to 1.3% of GDP; the Fed's 0.05%. Not only this. The Japanese central bank also announced that it's extending the maturity of JGBs available for purchase to up to 40 years and that, "It will ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... earnings could help the market settle on a direction. LONDON - European stock markets have slumped again after European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi said there were risks to eurozone economic growth and as investors kept a close watch over escalating ...

Frightened eurozone savers to buy Aussie dollars

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... from this point on," he continued. "Unfortunately that message seems to be totally contradictory to the European Central Bank statement in August 2012 - that it would "do whatever was necessary" to stabilise the European financial system and government ...

Cypriot banks to re-open sans banking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... be able to encash checks (American spelling). But you can leave in four days (says head of internal audit at the Central Bank of Cyprus, Yiangos Demetriou) or seven days (according to Athens newspaper Kathimerini). Yes Virginia, the capital controls ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... 0.69 per cent. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly fell and the euro suffered a sell-off on Friday after the European Central Bank told Cyprus it would cut off funding to its banks if it did not agree a new bailout deal soon. Regional markets followed losses ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... 0.69 per cent. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly fell and the euro suffered a sell-off on Friday after the European Central Bank told Cyprus it would cut off funding to its banks if it did not agree a new bailout deal soon. Regional markets followed losses ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... 0.69 per cent. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly fell and the euro suffered a sell-off on Friday after the European Central Bank told Cyprus it would cut off funding to its banks if it did not agree a new bailout deal soon. Regional markets followed losses ...

Reignited euro crisis prompts gold rush

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... positive for the shiny metal. ETF Securities data shows that gold has jumped 82 percent since the end of 2008 as central bank measures intended to stimulate economic growth increased speculation that inflation will accelerate. Last week the Fed left ...