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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... Leucadia's injection of a $US300 million ($A324.59 million) loan was enough to cover unbacked client losses sustained after the Swiss National Bank's unexpected decision Thursday to abandon the cap on the franc-euro rate. But since then details of Leucadia's ...

That other surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
There's no question about it... the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) surprise move was the biggest story in the financial markets last week. So huge that it eclipsed everything else. It eclipsed the plunging oil price and the dropping copper price -- the ...

So sure it's certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live". In fact, so certain of an ECB QE was the Swiss National Bank (SNB) that it bet its house when it removed the CHF1.20 per euro ceiling last week. The resulting sharp appreciation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... some investors. In Australia, the market on Friday fell for a fifth straight day, capping its worst week in 18 months. The Swiss central bank's shock move to stop capping its currency's value against the euro added to already low investor confidence. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
The Australian sharemarket is lower in the wake of a surprise move by the Swiss central bank to strengthen its currency. "We're all digesting the shock of the moves in the Swiss franc overnight - that's the talk of all the trading desks," CMC Markets ...

SNB dismantles defense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
"Francogeddon", "currency tsunami", "shocker", "jaw-dropping". These are some of the words used to describe the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) decision to surrender and abandon the currency peg - erected back in September 2011 - against the euro last night. ...

Life company profits flat

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... were $243 million. Other life companies that were in the red in APRA's last set of figures were MetLife (-$50 million) and Swiss Re Life (-$137 million), along with reinsurers Reinsurance Group of America (-$71 million) and Munich Reinsurance Company ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... world's biggest central banks - US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank - announced a coordinated action to provide additional liquidity to the financial system. After five years ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... caught in a downward trend," he said. In the resources stocks at 1200 AEDT, miner Rio Tinto had lost 92 cents to $59.15 after Swiss-based miner Glencore said it had abandoned its takeover bid, at least for now. BHP Billiton was down 65 cents at $32.59 ...

ANZ Swiss partnership attracts $1bn from private clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
ANZ's partnership with Vontobel to offer private clients access to the Swiss private bank's investment solution has attracted $1 billion in less than a year, ANZ Global Wealth chief executive Joyce Phillips said. "They [Vontobel] sit in our investment ...