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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... 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 stimulus ...

Fear me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... 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
... 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 monetary ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... 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 the repo ...

Down one day, dip buying the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... increase." (Bloomberg) To be sure, new scares our way would come... but the Fed's - and the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank and the Bank of England - explicit promise to keep policy accommodative for as long as necessary and that they would ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... dip-buyers (if I had the money to buy the dips with). For this time - dare I say it - it's different. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the member governments of the Eurozone have learnt their lessons - they've been here before. Surely, they know what ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... 51.9 (a seven-month low); and the services measure down to 52.8 (a three-month low). The good news - the European Central Bank's (ECB's) recent policy initiatives should prevent further deterioration in eurozone activity going forward. Though it'll also ...

The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... and depending on how recently-lifted consumption tax affects consumer spending... could QE a-plentier. The European Central Bank's (ECB) policy action announced just last week would, undoubtedly, add more liquidity to the planet. And it's not finish ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after the European Central Bank announced measures to bolster eurozone growth. The ECB has rolled out key changes to interest rates and other anti-deflation measures which lifted the euro, US Treasuries ...