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The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... - should conditions there deteriorate. It hasn't deteriorated that much yet but almost in an instant the European Central Bank confirmed my presumption. It dispatched Executive Board member Benoit Coeure - the person in charge of market operations -- ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... record 6.71% (Spain) and 7.29% (Italy) reached last November. You know the one -- the one that prompted the European Central Bank (ECB) to implement its long-term re-financing operation (LTRO) in December and focused European finmins minds to bring forward ...

QE going, going ...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... Treasury sold less bonds than targeted and at higher yields at last night's auction -- and German calls for the European Central Bank (ECB) to prepare an exit strategy because of rising inflation there. But has the market suddenly become so fearful again? ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... slumped and the euro lost ground against the dollar, hit by yet more signs of recession in Europe as the European Central Bank kept interest rates at an historic low. At the close, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies fell 2.30 percent ...

Wheel of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... wrong." Events proved us to be correct. Since then, we've seen the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the People's Bank of China and other Asian central banks, among others, implement more stimulus measures. We've seen the ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... 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 line is that there was nothing fresh in last night's report - only a ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... better than expected in recent months. European markets rose, lifted by gains for banking shares as the European Central Bank offered up cheap loans to lenders across the eurozone, boosting the euro. "There's nothing really that should have set the market ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... said the local currency could trade higher, dependent on a long-term refinancing operation (LTRO) by the European Central Bank, scheduled for Wednesday (European time). Meanwhile, Australian bond futures prices were lower. At 1200 AEDT on Wednesday ...

Smackdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... & Poor's just downgraded Greek debt to a "selective default" classification? And this, a day before the European Central Bank (ECB) conducts another 3-year LTRO - long-term re-financing operation. Tell someone who cares. It certainly looks that way ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... Nomura head of foreign exchange Kurt Magnus said there was a trend of safe-haven buying in the leadup to the European Central Bank's second long-term refinancing operation (LTRO). "We've seen some selling in the antipodean currencies, so both the Aussie ...