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Dec 2007 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... effort to address the liquidity crisis and stabilise the financial markets. The US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada and the Swiss National Bank agreed to jointly inject more than US$100 billion into ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... per cent to 4,880.00 points, as nervous investors took quick profits on early gains made after unprecedented joint central bank action to boost liquidity and ease the global credit crunch. FRANKFURT - The DAX 30 managed to just hold in positive territory ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... consortium of 10 major US banks pledged to make US$70 billion available, and extra liquidity injections from the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Swiss National Bank, failed to stem the financial market panic. Consensus has shifted ...

Whac-a-mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
... Shirakawa's speech at the annual meeting of Japanese brokerages. Investors will be interested to know the Japanese central bank's take on the turmoil in the US financial market and how this has impacted Japan. Europe: Inflation data dominates this week's ...

Stagflation policy conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... short-circuiting this downward momentum. RBNZ Governor Alan Bollard echoed RBA Governor Glenn Stevens' words when the Australian central bank cut interest rates in early September, that slowing growth would ease inflationary pressures, making the move ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... Zealand share prices closed lower on Thursday, dragged down by regional markets after making early gains on the NZ central bank cutting interest rates by 50 basis points. The benchmark NZX 50 index lost 10.32 points, or 0.31 per cent, to close at 3,3 ...

Funny Mae, Froggy Mac

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
... Moffett, former Vice Chairman and CFO of US Bankcorp, was picked to head Freddie Mac. Stockmarkets around the world and central bank chiefs welcomed the news. However, we believe that it is still too early to gauge what form of animal will emerge out ...

This Week's Movers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... Australia (RBA) cut its benchmark interest rate last week. The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank kept monetary policy unchanged. The downtrend in commodity prices continued last week, pulling down resource and energy companies. ...

US payrolls jitters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... could reveal a result worse than the already severe 75,000 fall expected. Meanwhile, the outcome of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England's (BoE) monetary policy meetings produced no real surprises for the financial markets. As expected ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... closed sharply lower on Thursday for the second day in a row, stricken by gloomy economic forecasts from the European Central Bank and weighed down by a slump on Wall Street. London's FTSE 100 blue chip index closed down 137.6 points, or 2.50 per cent ...