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Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... cut benchmark interest rates for the first time in more than two years to boost sagging economic growth. Also, European Central Bank president Mario Draghi signalled on Friday that new stimulus measures were being prepared to boost the flagging eurozone ...

Santa came to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... gifts last Friday, but he was whispering hope and financial markets welcomed his voice. Speaking in Frankfurt, European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi promised that the ECB would "do what we must to raise inflation and inflation expectations ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... first time in more than two years to boost sagging economic growth. LONDON - European shares shot up after the European Central Bank signalled it is ready to act quickly to deter deflation and China cut interest rates for the first time in more than ...

Ruble trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... start of 2014. Currency depreciation might be what the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is hoping for and the European Central Bank (ECB) wants to lessen the threat of deflation... but not Russia. For Russia, like its BRIC amigo - Brazil - faces stagflation. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... its surge as a brief rally by the yen fizzled out. Traders were also buoyed by comments from the head of the European Central Bank that it was ready to widen its stimulus program to support the eurozone economy. Tokyo on Friday rose 0.52 per cent, a ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
Australian shares look set to open higher following strong gains on international markets after European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi signalled possible further stimulus measures and positive US jobs figures. At 0834 AEST on Friday, the December ...

A trillion euros is in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
What had been a mathematically-derived, guessed at and/or expected a,-1 trillion expansion in the European Central Bank's (ECB) balance sheet has just become fact - ECB President Mario Draghi promised - and it's unanimous. Most would have probably read ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... prices for the US market. Copper futures were down one per cent and gold also fell, as investors believe the European Central Bank will take further measures to boost the region's economy after the Bank of Japan unveiled a fresh round of stimulus last ...

Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... growth. Weaker growth... Perhaps, by publishing its downgraded growth and inflation forecasts two days before the European Central Bank (ECB) policy meeting, the EC is giving the ECB a wink, wink, nudge, nudge that it's time. Time for QE. Perhaps, perhaps ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... past month, there have been sea changes in other central banks' policies since the RBA's October meeting: The European Central Bank (ECB) announced the operational details of asset-backed securities and covered bond purchase programmes (2 October); the ...