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Economic round-up: Dollars and sense

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2007
The International Monetary Fund is about to clamp down on unfriendly currency policies insisting that its 185 members reject strategies that create instability for other countries. Meanwhile the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has just executed its ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2007
... dropped 18.13 points to 6,087.15. TOKYO - The Nikkei average lifted as Canon Inc hit a record high and the local central bank suggested it would keep rates steady. The Nikkei firmed 178.03 points to 18,149.52. HONG KONG - Blue chips powered to a record ...

Economic round-up: Greenspan versus the poet

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
... the world's fastest-growing major economy, China's Premier Wen Jiabao relies on a team of technical advisors led by central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, and Ma Kai, a 60 year-old poet who also happens to head the nation's top economic-planning agency. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
... sectors such as utilities and banks also pulled the major indices lower after an interest-rate rise by the European Central Bank underscored the trend of rising rates. The two-day sell-off in stocks comes just days after the S&P 500 had completed its ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
... markets hitting fresh all time highs, while investors were feeling confident that inflation is under control and the central bank will not raise interest rates tomorrow. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 Index was ahead 53.4 points at 6386.9, while ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
... trading manager Stuart Moore said the Australian dollar had opened higher on the back of news overnight that UK's central bank had considered raising interest rates. The release of minutes from the Bank of England's board meeting earlier this month weakened ...

Economic round-up: Yearning for a yuan inspired Asian euro

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... unmanageable money supply growth, a runaway stock market, swelling foreign exchange reserves and inflation. China's central bank last week allowed its currency to trade at a wider range, curbed bank lending and raised interest rates in a further attempt ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... with investors relieved that the near-term uncertainty over China's policy had been cleared up after the country's central bank raised both interest rates and lenders' required reserves. The benchmark Hang Seng Index closed up 22.91 points to end at ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... would hamper demand for Australian commodities, which would in turn lower the domestic currency's value. The Chinese central bank also decided on Friday to increase the daily trading range of the fixed exchange rate yuan from 0.3 per cent to 0.5 per ...

Economic round-up: Beijing tugging the reins

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... Friday of another interest rate increase and a widening of its foreign exchange trading band against the US$. China's central bank also raised interest rates for the second time in almost as many months and tightened access to credit, in a renewed effort ...