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OECD: Economy to grow by 4% next year

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... in the capacity of the European Financial Stability Fund, together with a greater ability to call on the European Central Bank's balance sheet. Much greater firepower must be accompanied by governance reforms to offset the risk of moral hazard." Commenting ...

Worry me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... to make fiscal discipline legally binding and enforceable. These, authorities hope, would encourage the European Central Bank (ECB) to step up its bond market intervention. With rumours about gossips about talks again swirling all around, you get the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... France's President Nicolas Sarkozy wanted German Chancellor Angela Merkel to drop her refusal to allow the European Central Bank (ECB) to become a lender of last resort for weaker eurozone countries but once again failed to get any movement. In the absence ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... feeling pressure on several fronts. European powers France and Germany are miles apart over allowing the European Central Bank to rescue the eurozone from a debt crisis threatening to engulf major economies. Also, Spain's borrowing costs have soared ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... prices jumped. Oil prices were pushed higher by the announcement of US, British and Canadian sanctions against Iran's central bank and petrochemical sector. Merck fell nearly one per cent after the Justice Department said the firm would pay a fine of ...

Prettiest of them all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... Monti. Gold may have fallen by 9.2% after reaching an-all time of US$1898.25 per ounce but if the recent trend in central bank bullion buying continues - and global growth problems persist - it might not be too long until we see gold prices pass this ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... highlighted the possible knock-on effects for Asian investors. Shanghai dealers were little moved by the Chinese central bank's announcement that it would "fine-tune" monetary policy, raising hopes that credit restrictions imposed in the past year will ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... Monti replaced Silvio Berlusconi. Greece also has a new leader, Lucas Papademos, former deputy chief of the European Central Bank However, Asian markets fell Tuesday following a sell-off in Europe and the United States as dealers began to consider that ...

Russell: ECB needs to come to Italy's rescue

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... markets in the wake of earlier respite at news of the change in leadership. Reuters also reported that the European Central Bank (ECB) bought Italian government bonds in the secondary markets yesterday. According to Global investment giant Russell, the ...

Economist and former EU commissioner appointed Italian PM designate

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... member, Greece, amid reports troika representatives (inspectors from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central bank and EU) are due to arrive in Athens today, to ensure the country's new prime minister Lucas Papademos, is in a position to ...