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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
... cut a deal on tackling its debt mountain. On currency markets, the Australian dollar jumped on surprise news the central bank kept interest rates steady, while the yen eased slightly after Japan said it would intervene to damp down the value of its surging ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... added that Friday's US jobs figures - which reflected a trend of positive data from the US - could encourage the central bank to wait and see how global economic activity develops in the coming months. Meanwhile, Australian bond future prices were lower ...

China on course for slowdown, not landing: Fidelity

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... "For Asia it's just a transitional issue, funding is not a problem," according to Urquhart, adding that the Chinese Central Bank was also starting to return some deposits to Chinese banks. The Fidelity manager maintained another reason to invest in China ...

Eyes turn to monetary policy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... said that convergence on the issue of easing monetary policy would result in greater intervention by the European Central Bank to buy time for governments to reduce debt and absorb the 2011 China inflation scare. At home, "materially easier monetary ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... gains. Additionally, reports that banks would use an upcoming offer of very cheap three-year funds from the European Central Bank (ECB) to source twice or even three times the nearly 500 billion euros ($A618.77 billion) they took in December added to ...

What hard landing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... 50 basis points as it shifted its policy focus from inflation control into growth promotion. This was the Chinese central bank's first reduction in three years (December 2008). And to think, the PBOC announced the policy reversal even before it knew ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... bourses. Reports that Greece could have a new debt deal in place by the end of the week and news that the European Central Bank (ECB) has been buying Portuguese bonds in the secondary market boosted European shares overnight. A fresh agreement from all ...

Stirrings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... crisis there. As a result, most European equity indices fell by more than 1% while we slept. And to think the European Central Bank's (ECB) long-term refinancing operation (LTRO) that injected liquidity into the banking system was doing just fine in ...

Nice one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... November and December last year taking the official cash rate down to 4.25%. Financial markets expect the Australian central bank to announce another 25bps rate reduction when it holds its first meeting of 2012. Tame domestic inflation figures - and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... Building, which is leading rebuilding efforts in earthquake-hit Christchurch, rose 2.2 per cent to NZ$5.54 after the central bank said the final bill from the disaster would approach NZ$30 billion ($24.5 billion).