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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
The share market is more than one per cent higher after the European Central Bank announced measures to boost the eurozone's ailing economy. The ECB will buy 60 billion euros ($A85 billion) worth of private and public sector bonds per month between ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... week, while energy stocks benefitted from improvements in crude oil prices. Traders are also optimistic the European Central Bank will vote on Thursday to buy about 50 billion euros ($A72 billion) worth of bonds a month for at least a year as a stimulus ...

Central bank surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker (and their dogs and cats) have already pencilled in the European Central Bank's (ECB) QE announcement tonight, it still has the potential to surprise. There are lotta lotta moving parts. How much? Estimates ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... solid gains, buoyed by a strong production report from global miner BHP Billiton and expectations that the European Central Bank will take steps to boost the euro zone's sputtering economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 85.7 points, or 1.61 per ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... contract was up 23 points at 5,281. Europe's leading stock markets got a boost from expectations of further European Central Bank stimulus and better investor confidence in Germany. Locally, mining giant BHP Billiton releases its December quarter production ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... sustained recovery for the eurozone isn't far off." Stock indices had rallied Friday on fresh signals that the European Central Bank will launch a bond-buying stimulus program this week, news that has weighed heavily on the euro. The chronically low ...

So sure it's certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... contents (breathing or otherwise) - that four days from now, on 22 January, you, I and Irene would hear the European Central Bank (ECB) announce two letters to the whole wide world. The letters "Q" and "E". No more maybes. In the words of American author ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... against the currency of the 19-nation eurozone, of which Switzerland is not a member. Expectations that the European Central Bank will soon launch a significant economic stimulus program for the eurozone may have been one of the drivers behind the Swiss ...

SNB dismantles defense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... the Swiss central bank has received a wink, wink, nudge, nudge from its peer and next door neighbour, the European Central Bank (ECB), that one week for now it'll be setting QE a-sail. We know what this means, ey Virginia? There'll be greater downward ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... to-ings and fro-ings again," he said. "But I think the more important thing for Europe is going to be the European Central Bank's decision to broaden out its so called quantitative easing, to buy government bonds. "Hopefully, Greece can be quarantined ...