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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Australian stocks were almost one per cent higher at noon led by the major miners as investors await the central bank's cash rate decision. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 40.6 points, or 0.83 per cent, at 4,948.3, while the broader ...

Greenspan put

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... forget who "the maestro" was. After all, it had already been 50 months since he was at the helm of the most powerful central bank in the world. Greenie observed that yields on US government bonds have been rising in recent days which he attributes to ...

Flip-flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... gives substance to the phrase, "it's all Greek to me!" Flip. Greek bonds rallied - their yields fell - after European Central Bank (ECB) Jean-Claude Trichet announced that the ECB would extend its "emergency collateral" program beyond 2010. This measure ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
The Australian share market has received positive leads from overseas, with Wall Street indices and the oil price up. Metals prices were lower, however. At 0721 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 26 points higher ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... attempt to prevent the yen from rising and as chip shares gained on hopes of positive earnings guidance from Intel. The central bank doubled the size of a lending operation it put in place at an emergency meeting in December but did not extend its duration. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... share market into positive territory after range-bound trading that ignored an upbeat assesment of the economy by the central bank. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed up 13.1 points, or 0.27 per cent, to 4,797.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... monetary policy and the economic outlook. Fred Dickson at DA Davidson & Co said that investors would scrutinise the central bank's current assessment of the economic recovery. LONDON - European stocks lost ground on Monday as traders kept an anxious ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... government reportedly was so horrified that it gave them the money. Amid these doom and gloom, market's dismissed European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet's press conference in Basel, Switzerland. Monsieur Trichet stated that, 'We have a number ...

Still waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... per cent) as a result of poor labour market conditions. There was not much change in Europe either. The European Central Bank and the Bank of England both kept their respective policy interest rates steady. And in Greece...the sage continues. And in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... help from the International Monetary Fund if its eurozone partners failed to back it were brushed off by European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet. Meanwhile, Germany insisted Athens still must sort out its own problems first before any aid. Dealers ...