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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 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 ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
Now wasn't that just classic entertainment? I doubt that even the best of the best comedic minds could come up with a farce such as the one the Australian Labor Party delivered for our viewing, hearing and reading pleasure yesterday. For after all the ...

Ripples from a pebble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... a,-380 billion bailout spent on Greece; and, a,-41 billion for Spain. Looks like we finally get to test the European Central Bank's Outright Monetary Transactions (OMTs) launched last September and...let's all hope it works. Or is it better punting on ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... 3,871.58 points. HONG KONG - Most Asian markets closed higher and the US dollar has climbed against the yen as Japan's central bank nominees appear set for approval by Parliament. Traders seemed broadly unimpressed by another record for the Dow on Wall ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... main opposition party would vote against one of the government's nominations for deputy governor of the country's central bank. Hong Kong shed 1.46 per cent, or 333.95 points, to end at 22,556.65, while Shanghai fell 0.99 per cent, or 22.64 points, to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... sold 5.832 billion euros ($A7.46 billion) in short-term debt amid demand that was more than double the supply, a central bank statement said. British manufacturing output slumped by 1.5 per cent in January compared with December, official data showed ...

Still the best game in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
Wall Street continues to treat us to the spectacle that is the running of the bulls. The Dow is now a full 2.0% away from its 2007 record and the S&P 500 is less than 10 points away from reclaiming its own. To be sure, there was some not so good news ...

More than five minutes this time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... when the more aggressive Haruhiko Kuroda replaces 'big stimulus' hawk Masaaki Shirakawa at the helm of the Japanese central bank. This has spurred widespread optimism that the sun couldn't help but rise again in 'The Land of the Rising Sun' as both fiscal ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... points, or 0.30 per cent, to 3,232.09. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets maintained earlier gains after the European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of England held their key rates, forgoing any new stimulus measures. London's FTSE 100 index of leading ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... the CAC 40 lost 0.35 per cent to 3,773.76 points as markets awaited a monthly rate-setting meeting by the European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday. Earlier in the day, dealers had taken their cue from Wall Street, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...