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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is due to release the minutes of its April board meeting at 1130 AEST. The central bank left the cash rate unchanged at 4.25 per cent at its April meeting. Mr Smith said the April minutes were expected to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... showed Spanish banks borrowed a record E227.6 billion ($A288.48 billion) in emergency cheap loans from the European Central Bank in March. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index fell 13.66 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 3,473.50.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... points to 20,327.32 on turnover of HK$52.76 billion ($A6.62 billion). Traders followed a global pick-up after European Central Bank board member Benoit Coeure suggested markets were overestimating Spain's problems and did not rule out additional purchases ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... - should conditions there deteriorate. It hasn't deteriorated that much yet but almost in an instant the European Central Bank confirmed my presumption. It dispatched Executive Board member Benoit Coeure - the person in charge of market operations -- ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... record 6.71% (Spain) and 7.29% (Italy) reached last November. You know the one -- the one that prompted the European Central Bank (ECB) to implement its long-term re-financing operation (LTRO) in December and focused European finmins minds to bring forward ...

QE going, going ...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... Treasury sold less bonds than targeted and at higher yields at last night's auction -- and German calls for the European Central Bank (ECB) to prepare an exit strategy because of rising inflation there. But has the market suddenly become so fearful again? ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... slumped and the euro lost ground against the dollar, hit by yet more signs of recession in Europe as the European Central Bank kept interest rates at an historic low. At the close, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies fell 2.30 percent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
... annual general meeting. In Australia, the market on Tuesday marginally firmer despite slipping in late trade after the central bank kept interest rates on hold. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 7.7 points, or 0.18 per cent, at 4,337 points, while ...

Can't fix what's not broken, yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
It's that time of the month again folks - the time when we try to second guess what the Reserve Bank of Australia will do to interest rates. Will they? Won't they? Cut interest rates, that is. They will, then again perhaps they won't. Yes, Virginia ...

Wheel of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... wrong." Events proved us to be correct. Since then, we've seen the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the People's Bank of China and other Asian central banks, among others, implement more stimulus measures. We've seen the ...