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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... share market at noon on Friday was higher, led by the resources and materials sector, following a decision by the US central bank to keep interest rates low for longer. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 29.4 points, or 0.69 per cent ...

Extending the extended extension

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... times, maintaining confidence is crucial. The Fed's recent decision to extend the extension suggests that the biggest central bank in the world is on the case, that it's doing something - anything and everything - to ensure that the current global malady ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... rates at "exceptionally low levels" for at least two years offset by profit-taking. The euro was also up after the US central bank move, despite Greece's ongoing struggle to agree a writedown on its huge debts with its creditors. Hong Kong, which was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... were closed for the Lunar New Year. However, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock rose 0.2 per cent to 8,785.33, despite the central bank cutting growth forecasts for the fiscal year ending March 2012 and the following year because of a slowdown in overseas demand ...

Long-term outlook bullish on emerging markets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
Central banks focused on supporting growth have eased inflationary pressure in emerging markets, with a positive long-term outlook, according to the Templeton Emerging Markets overview for Q4 2011. China's reduction of cash reserve requirements for ...

Priced in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... word for it. Even our very own RBA is positioned for these. In the minutes of its 6 December 2011 Board Meeting, our central bank stated that, while "The data for the US economy had been better than in earlier months. China's growth had been slowing... ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... euros at mostly lower rates in a bond auction, reflecting what was then still improved market confidence and European Central Bank efforts to boost eurozone liquidity. HONG KONG - Asian markets were broadly higher, boosted by strong bond auctions in ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... hit. Meanwhile, a surge in Italy's borrowing costs and comments from policy makers that quashed hopes of a European Central Bank intervention sparked a selloff in commodity markets, with oil plummeting 5.2 per cent and gold tumbling 4.5 per cent. At ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... strategist Imre Speizer said the local currency is simply following a downwards trend in Europe. "The ECB (European Central Bank)'s opposition to stepping up and doing a bond purchase program, and (German chancellor Angela) Merkel saying she was against ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... found consumer confidence dropped to its lowest level since August, despite two consecutive cash rate cuts by the central bank. The Westpac/Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment fell by 8.3 per cent in December. That underlines the impact that ...