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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... successful. The euro bounced back above $US1.32 with dealers shrugging off decisions by central banks the ECB and Bank of England to keep interest rates steady as expected. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index jumped 1.18 per cent to 5,859.73 points, Frankfurt's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... Mining giant Rio Tinto dropped $1.22 to $62.40 as it said it would close its Lynemouth aluminium smelter in Northumberland, England, at the end of March. Market heavyweight BHP Billiton retreated 39 cents to $34.19. Among the major banks, National Australia ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... not showing signs of further deterioration." Doesn't this sound a bit like the Fed's assessment, a bit like the Bank of England's, a bit like the Bank of Japan's, a bit like the European Central Bank, a bit like the People's Bank of China? The bottom ...

All Greeced out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012

She's becoming right, mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... help. Help from six big CB's plus one. The US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada and the Swiss National Bank announced that they were pumping more liquidity in the financial system - ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
... Frankfurt the DAX 30 fell 0.87 per cent to 6,035.88 points. Milan slid 0.16 per cent and Madrid gave up 0.34 per cent. Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said the co-ordinated central bank action announced on Wednesday was only "temporary relief" to ...

A liquid Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... got going. Six of the world's biggest central banks -US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank - sent financial markets soaring overnight. Whoops, better make it seven central banks. ...

Europe push-US pull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... back down. Only for the Europeans, each time the boulder comes back down it snowballs. Last night, it was the Bank of England's turn to play "bearer of bad news" when it said that Europe's failure to resolve the debt crisis could have "significant adverse ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... crisis starting on Friday. London's FTSE 100 index of top shares closed up 0.74 per cent to 5,450.49, despite the Bank of England saying it expected no pick-up for Britain's stalled economy in the current fourth quarter. Frankfurt's DAX 30 gained 0.61 ...

APRA executive appointed secretary general of Basel

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... 1998, Byres spent 13 years with the Reserve Bank of Australia, mainly in bank supervision and also worked at the Bank of England in the UK. The Basel Committee, which meets four times a year, was first set up in 1974 to recommend standards and guidelines ...