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Global re-regulation takes shine off investment banks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... question whether the tide is turning. The re-regulation push includes increased capital requirements imposed by the European Central Bank (ECB), increased educational requirements imposed by the US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) as well as ...

Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... keeping on pumping even it means that it losses money when the bills are redeemed on maturity. As determined as the European Central Bank (ECB) which, probably has already hammered out the details of its purchases of non-financial private sector assets ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... and Putin and indications of more slowdown in China and the PBOC's latest counter-response and speculation of European Central Bank (ECB) QE. These issues du jour have relegated the goings-on in the world's third biggest economy, Japan -- the Land of ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... September 2009) -- threatening to turn into outright deflation, financial markets are just as happy that the European Central Bank (ECB) is doing something, anything, to counteract/reverse this state of affairs. Yes Virginia, it wasn't the ECB doing ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... sectors of the market were lower at noon, and trading volumes were down. Investors are waiting for a meeting of the European Central Bank on Thursday night, which some believe could result in new stimulus measures for the eurozone economy. In the US ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... Jones Index was just short of its closing record high. In Europe, markets firmed as they position for the next European Central Bank (ECB) announcement on economic stimulus. IG Markets strategist Stan Shamu said strong US economic data and potential ...

Fear me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... we not? It's the central banks and their commitment to benevolence towards financial markets. Never mind the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan that are expected to shower the people with more love sooner rather than later. Never you mind them. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... German gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.2 per cent in the June quarter prompting speculation the European Central Bank would have to roll out stimulus measures. No major local economic news is expected on Friday. In equities news, ANZ is ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... cent to 6,597.37 points after the Bank of England also chose to hold its key interest rate at a record low. The European Central Bank held its key interest rates unchanged at 0.15 per cent at its regular policy meeting on Thursday, two months after easing ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." These were the words that came out of the European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi's lips barely two months ago, straight after the ECB announced a 10 bps reduction in ...