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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... signs that a coordinated rescue for eurozone banks is in the works. A day after the European Central Bank and the Bank of England took fresh steps to boost credit, higher-than-expected US jobs data helped ease concerns that the world's biggest economy ...

Action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... crisis, helping defuse threats to banks and the economy. Dealers said decisions by the European Central Bank and the Bank of England to keep interest rates on hold were as expected while their readiness to offer fresh help to keep the economy on track ...

Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... done fast. The financial markets' positive reaction to the concerted action by the central banks of the US, the Eurozone, England, Japan and Switzerland to extend liquidity to European banks suggests that financial markets are not averse to more stimulus ...

Dangerous currents

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... markets rallied following news that the European Central Bank, in coordination with the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank, is extending liquidity to banks in the Eurozone. Instead of the usual seven-day ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... will be felt worldwide. LONDON - British retail sales fell by 0.2 per cent in August compared with July as rioting across England shut shops and high inflation hit shoppers' spending power, official data showed on Thursday. WASHINGTON - US consumers ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... response to the European Central Bank's hike in its key interest rate by 0.25 points to 1.50 per cent and the Bank of England's decision to sit tight at 0.50 per cent, with both moves as expected. The euro was slightly firmer, supported by the ECB rate ...

BTFG new head of prac mgmt

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... previously occupied by Graeme Potter, a member of BTFG risk team, who was acting head of practice management after Matt England left the role in October last year. "I'm extremely excited by this opportunity as what we do drives to the heart of what financial ...

Nobody wins against the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... Headline CPI inflation spiked to an annual rate of 4.5 per cent in April from 4.0 per cent in the previous month. The Bank of England may be forced to raise interest rates despite a still weak economy. And for our final destination, we cross the Atlantic ...

May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... equities down. According to reports, the latest higher-than-expected inflation data from China and Germany and the Bank of England's unease over rising prices point to reduced monetary policy accommodation -- made more real by the Polish central bank's ...