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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013
... 10.9 per cent to $US168.2 billion, revealing some ongoing strength in the Chinese economy. European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's comments that the European economy appeared to be stabilising and fresh German trade showed a pickup in exports. ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... news, it's no longer news. No one seems to be worried about Greece these days - or not since September last year when Super Mario unveiled his secret weapon - the OMTs. Except for the Greeks, that is. They're still begging for bailout. Earlier this week ...

Lotsa data but no game change (yet)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... sure, like they won't and risk re-starting the crisis again). However, the bestest news would have to be ECB President Super Mario's repetition of his commitment to lower for longer interest rates. "The exit from our monetary policy stance being accommodative ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... Australian job ad numbers and overall employment figures, due out this week, and, later on Monday, European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi's speech on monetary policy in the troubled eurozone. The big miners were all weaker on Monday morning, with BHP ...

Guiding it forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013

Once more from the top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... on its website yesterday". The ECB, too, did it again. In a speech before the French National Assembly in Paris, ECB head Mario Draghi reiterated that the central bank's policy "will stay accommodative for the foreseeable future". This was about the ...

Breaking the bad in the eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... point interest rate reduction last month that took interest rates to an all-time low of 0.50%. It could be due to Super Mario's Outright Monetary Transactions (OMTs) programme that's designed to eliminate the tail risk from the market. It could be both. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... 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 Global ...

May Day happy day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... rates gained mainstream late last year. The Fed, then the Bank of England (BOE), subsequently dismissed the idea. Here's Mario's response when asked about taking the deposit rate lower (now at zero): "On the deposit facility rate, we said it in the past ...

Don't be disappointed if the ECB disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
Be careful what you wish for, you might just not get it. The day is nigh...only two more sleeps and we'll get it. Like cute little children waiting for Santa, European stock markets are happy for Christmas is coming soon - it'll be here on the 2nd of ...