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ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
It's a wrap! QE is. Looking at Wall Street's performance overnight - the Dow and the S&P 500 up more than 1.0%, the Nasdaq up nearly 2.0% (rounded) and the Russell 2000 up nearly 3.0% (rounded) - the men and women at the Fed must be patting each other's ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... contributed to a weaker start to the Australian share market. "At the moment, there's that nexus between weaker news out of Europe and then creating greater compulsion on the part of the European Central Bank to do something more compelling in relation ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... bond-buying program and offer any additional comment on its expectations to raise benchmark interest rates in 2015. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets fell sharply as negative German business data overpowered broad relief after the European Central ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
Australian shares look set to open lower after a flat performance on Wall Street and sharp falls on European markets following negative German business data. At 0645 AEST on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 16 points ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... banks continue to rally. The share market posted on Friday its biggest weekly gain since February as easing concerns about Europe helped the big banks. The banks were continuing to lift the market on Monday, in the lead-up to the sector's earnings season ...

QEnd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
"And now, the end is near; And so I face the final curtain." - My Way That, Virginia, is QE doing its rendition of Frankie ol' blue eyes Sinatra's ol' time classic. Barring a very nasty - just nasty won't cut it - surprise, the Fed will be announcing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... meetings scheduled. In Australia, the market on Friday posted its biggest weekly gain since February as easing concerns about Europe helped the big banks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 29.1 points, or 0.54 per cent, at 5,412.2 points. The broader ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
The share market is higher at noon as investors continue to buy shares with high returns, particularly the big banks. CMC Markets analyst Michael McCarthy said some investors were buying because they believe weak global growth prospects mean stimulus ...

Hastings grows London and New York offices

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... appointed at the manager's office in London, along with Ingrid Weston, who will lead the firm's business development team in Europe. Weston will aim at in growing and managing Hastings' institutional client relationships across the infrastructure equity ...

Better corporate cash management lifts returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... they may be taking on unnecessary sovereign and currency risks. Flipe Simao, head of client advisory at BNP Paribas in Europe, said: "If a company is borrowing when it doesn't have to it is taking on currency risks it doesn't have to, and some companies ...