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Grexit nears, markets cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... Greek PM Tsipras accused Greece's creditors of wanting to humiliate the government - the IMF for its "criminal intent" and the ECB for insisting on a line of "financial strangulation". The response from 'the institutions': I'll raise your "criminal intent" ...

Greece's bundle of debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... bundle. What else can it do? Greece owes the IMF ("the bank") so many euros, that it becomes the IMF's - and the EC and the ECB -- problem. This wasn't the case back during the Asian financial crisis back in the late 1990s. Then, the IMF was mighty and ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... the US economy returned to modest-to-moderate growth during April and May after stalling in the first quarter of the year. ECB President Mario Draghi praised the bank's stimulus policies and said there were no plans to end them more quickly than planned. ...

You can forget June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... expectations that the Fed will do a "Pringles" - one it pops, it can't stop - would certainly send it up. More so, with the ECB and BOJ still QE-ing and the BOE promising only a few days ago not to lift until mid-2016. A strong US dollar would not only ...

Don't put all QE in the same basket: AXA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... impact in the real economy, Tinker said. But QE is not having an impact on the European economy yet. The European Central Bank (ECB) is "buying the long dated bonds. But institutions are not recycling that cash back into the real economy and that's one ...

Tug o' currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... is enough and enough is too much". The euro has strengthened enough and it's become too much for the European Central Bank (ECB). Enter Executive Board member BenoA(R)t CoeurA(C) announcing that, "The Eurosystem is taking this [less market liquidity ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... Glass Lewis opposed the plan as poorly linked to bank performance. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets have rallied after an ECB executive board member signalled that the Euro zone central bank would temporarily ramp up its stimulus program. The benchmark ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... achieved on a truly sustained basis." With the economy and inflation recently picking up, there has been speculation that the ECB would wind up early its unprecedented 1.1 trillion euros ($A1.54 trillion) asset-purchase program, widely known as quantitative ...

Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... market sell-off would be the same factor that would keep the Fed lift-off at bay for a while longer. And then, there's the ECB and the BOJ - nothing's stopping them from printing more and ensuring that yields stay low for longer. This, or all the money ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... that caused 'net exports' to be the biggest drag on first quarter growth. A sooner-rather-than-later - while the BOJ and the ECB are just in the early stages of their QE programmes, the PBOC's gearing up on expansionary policies and many other central ...