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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... to see if US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke will outline economic stimulus measures. The euro picked up as news that Mario Draghi would not attend the annual summit of central bank chiefs stoked speculation of a new European Central Bank program ...

No change - no mas, no less

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... Telegraph" printed that Frau Merkel's man in the ECB - German ECB executive board member Jorg Asmussen - is backing ECB President Mario Draghi's plan for large-scale bond purchases. This followed yesterday's news that the Bundesbank (in its monthly report) ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... Banking stocks led the German gains after Merkel said in Canada on Thursday that she backed European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi's position on making sure the euro would not fail. Commerzbank jumped 3.27 per cent to 1.26 euros and Deutsche Bank was ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... 4234, with 5,047 contracts traded. Overseas markets continued to rise overnight on hopes the European Central Bank president Mario Draghi was getting closer to taking action on the eurozone sovereign debt crisis. Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Double A USA - the scare that wasn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... every blah that comes out of anybody who's somebody's lips. I don't think anybody could argue that Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is somebody. Thus, when he blahed to Germany's Spiegel magazine that, "The tensions that have accompanied the euro zone ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... down 49 points at 4,179, with 13,491 contracts traded. Disappointed stock markets in Europe fell sharply after ECB chief Mario Draghi announced no immediate monetary measures to ease debt pressures in the euro zone. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ...

If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... Strengthens" (Bloomberg) and "Draghi sits on hands, but new policy action looms". (The Age) The common refrain from Ben, Mario and Mervyn where that while they were prepared to act, now is not the right time? What the? They either know something we don't ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... cent, to 4,290.1 points. LONDON - Disappointed stock markets in Europe fell sharply after European Central Bank (ECB) chief Mario Draghi announced no immediate monetary measures to ease debt pressures in the eurozone. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ...

No Ben boosta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
Ben passes, over to you Mario. While reports of Wall Street's disappointment over the Fed's inaction last night filled cyberspace, somehow I don't think The Street was really that displeased. The S&P 500 index closed down by only 0.3% as we awoke - ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... possible to save the single currency. The European Central Bank meets on Thursday, with expectations high after its chief Mario Draghi last week said the Frankfurt-based bank was "ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro". London's benchmark ...