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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... of the eurozone. Shares slumped 1.5 per cent at the open, wiping out December's gains to date, after the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi dampened speculation the ECB would boost its bond purchase program to help distressed European countries. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... 12.4 points, or 0.28 per cent, to 4,338.9. NEW YORK - US stocks closed sharply lower after the head of the European Central Bank poured cold water on hopes that the bank will boost its bond-buying to help contain the eurozone debt crisis. The Dow Jones ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... "chasing defensive investments like telecoms" ahead of further news out of Europe and a rate decision from the European Central Bank this evening. Telstra shares climbed to their highest point in 16 months, rising by 3.5 cents, or 1.1 per cent, to $3.29 ...

Euro debt crisis has silver lining for advisers: PIMCO

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... last week, Fisher spoke about the multi-layered issues facing Europe and policymakers including how the European Central Bank (ECB) should outline the solvent and insolvent countries with government debt buying support for solvent nations and restructurings ...

Waiting to exhale 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... Mechanism (ESM). However, MarketWatch reports that the Germans are against this combo. There's rumour that the European Central Bank (ECB) will announce an interest rate cut tonight and that it is only the size of the reduction that is being determined. ...

She's becoming right, mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... more. But he didn't do it alone. He got 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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
... eurozone's "underlying solvency problems", which he said have to be tackled directly by the governments. The European Central Bank will not act as lender of last resort for struggling eurozone countries, its chief Mario Draghi insisted on Thursday, but ...

Tell someone who cares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
... of fiscal policies. There's Fraulein Merkel expected to insist on "anything" but an expanded role for the European Central Bank. Yes Virginia. There were the same issues which only weeks before created angst and anxiety from New York to Rio and old London ...

OECD: Economy to grow by 4% next year

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... in the capacity of the European Financial Stability Fund, together with a greater ability to call on the European Central Bank's balance sheet. Much greater firepower must be accompanied by governance reforms to offset the risk of moral hazard." Commenting ...

Worry me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... to make fiscal discipline legally binding and enforceable. These, authorities hope, would encourage the European Central Bank (ECB) to step up its bond market intervention. With rumours about gossips about talks again swirling all around, you get the ...