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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... default would not lead to a global recession after the Netherlands voted to beef up Europe's rescue fund. The European Central Bank (ECB) unveiled new measures to help cash-strapped Eurozone banks with additional liquidity in a bid to avert a possible ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... the eurozone debt crisis, helping defuse threats to banks and the economy. Dealers said decisions by the European Central Bank and the Bank of England to keep interest rates on hold were as expected while their readiness to offer fresh help to keep the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... effort to stabilise its debt-stricken economy. A mission from the EU, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank was expected in Athens on Thursday to resume an audit vital to the release of rescue funds from the first bailout loan ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... disappointment. The US dollar strengthened against regional currencies as investors sought its safe-haven status after the US central bank warned of serious downside risks for the global outlook. Tokyo fell 2.07 per cent, or 180.90 points, to 8,560.26 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... market is more than two per cent lower at noon amid global uncertainty following big falls on Wall Street after the US central bank downgraded its economic outlook. The big miners led the falls, with Rio Tinto shares shedding more than five per cent ...

Twisting the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... 1 and 2. As the Fed buys more long-term Treasuries, their yields fall - effectively handing capital gains to the central bank. The Fed's capital gains translates into earnings for the US Treasury and at the same time lowers the US government's cost of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... rating late Monday. Attention was focused on Greece's bailout talks with its lenders, the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, for a new installment on its rescue package. The market also was anticipating the end of ...

Glimmer of hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... mouths. The recent update talks of Greece's meeting with the troika of alms-givers - the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The conclusion (for now), their emergency over-the-weekend meeting produced a 'near' ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... reported "productive and substantive" talks with its lenders, the EU, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Central Bank (ECB), to hammer out a response to serious slippage from agreed budget targets. Markets were increasingly expecting Greece ...

Psychological asset classes run investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
Gold, silver and US Treasury bonds are all psychological asset classes that will eventually burn investors, according to a chief investment strategist. James Swanson, chief investment strategist, MFS Investment Management told Financial Standard that ...