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Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... markets fell as investors digested more US Federal Reserve monetary easing and an EU deal to give the European Central Bank (ECB) supervisory powers over the banking sector. Sentiment was soothed somewhat as the European Union also cleared long-delayed ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... markets were mixed, with profit-taking reversing some earlier gains, while the euro extended losses made in New York after the ECB cut its growth forecast for the eurozone. Seoul climbed 0.4 per cent, or 7.83 points, to 1,957.45 on Friday and Tokyo lost ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... after gains on markets in Europe and the United States. Stocks in France and Germany rose after the European Central Bank (ECB) said a decision to leave its key rate unchanged was not unanimous. Wall Street was marginally higher as investors remained ...

It's just plain dumb

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... "Twas another good day in Europe - the Stoxx 600 closed 0.7% higher to an 18-month high -- despite the European Central Bank (ECB) cutting its 2012 growth forecast to minus 0.5% from minus 0.4% (predicted in September) and 2013 to plus 0.3% from plus ...

Sweeet!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... has passed. And oh, the maturity of their debt has been doubled from 15 years to 30 years. And oh, the profits made by the ECB and other national governments on their Greek bond holdings would be channelled back to Greece. And oh, the troika gave Greece ...

Corporate spending the catalyst for global markets

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... global assets. The strategy expert argues that even fresh tranches of stimulus via the US's quantitative easing policy, the ECB's Outright Monetary Transactions will do little to lift markets unless there are signs of recovery in the corporate sector. ...

Western recovery expected to lift Asian stocks

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... more sustained recovery in the US and other Western economies should add wind to Asia's sails. "Current commitments by the ECB and the program of quantitative easing in the US mean that growth rates in these developed markets are likely to stabilise ...

A week full of question marks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... keep powders dry this week until we get definite answers to this week's question marks - US elections, Greek austerity vote, ECB, BOE, RBA monetary policy decisions. And oh, there's also a question mark on which horse will win tomorrow's Melbourne Cu ...

Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... returned with only a hope and a prayer that maybe, just maybe, the central banks would print more dough. We all know the Fed, the ECB and the BOJ all did - they answered the markets' prayers. Still, there were unbelievers (hello Stuart my friend) pointing ...

Push... pussshh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012