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The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... play the waiting game. Investors' attention would be on what the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) would do after they met and deliberated on monetary policy this week... and Japan and China and America. It's easy pickings ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... per cent to 4,379.06. The euro retreated to a three-week low against the dollar on heavy selling after the European Central Bank hinted at a further loosening of monetary policy in the eurozone to avert deflation, traders said. HONG KONG - Asia's markets ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... European markets recorded the strongest gains, thanks to speculation of looser monetary policy from the European Central Bank. "That's really fired up European investors," he said. Mr McCarthy said an improvement in commodity prices had also provided ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... indices had slid on China slowdown concerns and Ukraine tensions. Trade was also boosted by talk from the European Central Bank that looser monetary policy could be in the offing. Slovak central bank chief and ECB Governing Council member Josef Makuch ...

Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... lights flashing on the screens of most major equity markets overnight. Not even next door neighbour - the European Central Bank (ECB) - is perturbed. It voted to keep interest rates unchanged overnight. According to ECB President Mario Draghi, "When ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... remain unfazed by the lack of action at the ECB, while banking on further recovery in the eurozone. The European Central Bank held its key interest rates steady at 0.25 per cent with bank head Mario Draghi brushing off widespread talk that damaging deflation ...

Reflation, rotation and the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... the New Year. Still beaming from the afterglow of central bank largesse in the final quarter of 2012 - the European Central Bank unveiled an open-ended bond buying programme - "Outright Monetary Transactions" (OMTs); the US Federal Reserve announced ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... yen after approaching highs not seen for five years, while the euro continued to receive support from the European Central Bank's decision last week to delay cutting interest rates further. Tokyo slipped 0.62 per cent, or 96.25 points to 15,515.06, Sydney ...

Fund manager warns of 'Japanification' of Europe

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... optimistic view of the UK and the US, he took a very pessimistic view on Europe, pointing particularly to the European Central Bank's refusal to employ quantitative easing. "We think that the structural difficulties that Europe is facing means that the ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... roll back its stimulus program soon. The euro fell further after a sell-off on Thursday in response to the European Central Bank's (ECB) surprise decision to cut eurozone interest rates, although investors seemed unmoved by news of a ratings downgrade ...