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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... United States was on the brink of a new economic downturn. Markets were also buoyed by rumours that the European Central Bank was buying Spanish and Italian government bonds, which have been pummelled in recent days as investors fret about the solvency ...

USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... Reserve Board's Regulation W, will also be unaffected." Think they forgot to mention in the press release that its central bank can - and will - print money to buy Treasuries issued by the US government if necessary.

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... debt, he said. Eslake said the wave of selling across Europe was triggered by market disappointment that the European Central Bank did not announce a program specifically to support the Spanish and Italian government debt markets. "Bond yields have been ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... 1700 (AEST) on Thursday, the local unit traded between 104.55 US cents and 106.89 cents. Overnight, the European Central Bank (ECB) offered extra help to fight the eurozone debt crisis after a warning that countries such as Italy could now be threatened. ...

Gold, gold, gold, but not to Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
Australian investors, including super funds, misinterpreting gold as a returns generator rather than as a defensive strategy is costing them major opportunities in the sector. Taurus Funds Management is a specialist in the gold sector and their director ...

Ready to turn on the tap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... take: "Stocks rebounded after the Wall Street Journal reported that three former top officials at the Fed said the central bank should consider a new round of securities purchases to bolster economic growth." And here's the Wall Street Journal's: "In ...

Rates rise in Italy while Cypriot pension funds withdraw cash

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... funds have begun withdrawing cash from local banks that are highly exposed to the Greek sovereign debt crisis. The Central Bank of Cyprus said deposits by financial intermediaries had fallen from 7.5 billion euros in May to 6.1 billion euros in June ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
The Australian dollar was over one US cent lower on Wednesday after the central bank kept the cash rates on hold on Tuesday and the release of weak US economic data overnight. At 0700 (AEST), the Australian dollar was trading at 107.80 US cents, down ...

Other play factors

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... actual is higher, lower or in line with market expectations. If only it's this simple. We can train any chimp to be central bank governor, do away with central bank staff - and we only have to pay it peanuts. So I really can't understand this exaggerated ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... the back of the weekend's fatal high-speed rail crash in China. However, Mumbai fell 1.29 per cent after the Indian central bank announced a surprise 50 basis points rise in interest rates as it struggles to tame inflation. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand ...