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AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
... second day running against the US dollar on talk of a possible cut to eurozone interest rates when the European Central Bank (ECB) meets next week - and in the wake of falling inflation across the single-currency area, analysts said. London's benchmark ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... markets slid on profit-taking and the euro retreated from a two-year high against the US dollar, as traders looked nervously on ECB plans to assess banks. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ended Wednesday 0.32 per cent lower at 6,674.48 points. Frankfurt's ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... counting down the days when the debt limit will be reached. The European Central Bank is too. In his Q&A session -- after the ECB Governing Council met and decided not to change monetary policy settings - president Mario Draghi commented that, "...the ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013
... markets fell but the euro soared against the US dollar as Italy averted a political crisis and the European Central Bank (ECB) signalled more efforts to boost eurozone recovery. With a US government shutdown pushed into a second day, dealers moved to ...

Central banks rule

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... CB's have become the CA's (cure-all) for anything and everything that ails economies and financial markets. It's also the ECB. Recall ECB president Mario Draghi's "whatever it takes" and forward guidance, "The governing council expects the key ECB rates ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013
... Chancellor Angela Merkel's weekend election win in Germany - also retreated on Tuesday after the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) aired concerns about interest rates. Tokyo edged down 9.81 points to 14,732.61 on its first day of trading after ...

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... the tail risk around the European sovereign debt crisis by bringing bond yields (borrowing costs) down through "outright" ECB purchases of bonds issued by euro area members in the secondary sovereign bond markets. A real shame Virginia because a year ...

Withdrawal anxiety

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013

Out of the woods and into?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... weapon - the OMTs. Except for the Greeks, that is. They're still begging for bailout. Earlier this week, the troika - EU, ECB, IMF - dropped a cool a,-6.8 billion into Athen's begging bowl. Another tranche amounting to about a,-3.0 billion is reportedly ...