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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... per cent, while the 30-year was flat at 3.11 per cent. LONDON - European stocks were little changed as the European Central Bank kept interest rates at record lows but gave no indication of when or if it may give the eurozone economy a further boost. ...

There's the good news and there's the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
... And now it's turning out just as it was written. Our BFF Ben just reminded us yesterday. And so did the European Central Bank and Frauline Merkel. Those who bought-op the S&P 500 on this day would have added another 3.05% to their loot. Gloat, gloat ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... continues and that inflation stays close to target." Hit it one more time, for Ben's a jolly good fella. The European Central Bank and Germany also looks like they're beginning to see my point of view (and my attachment to JMK- John Maynard Keynes) - ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... showed Spanish banks borrowed a record E227.6 billion ($A288.48 billion) in emergency cheap loans from the European Central Bank in March. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index fell 13.66 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 3,473.50.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... points to 20,327.32 on turnover of HK$52.76 billion ($A6.62 billion). Traders followed a global pick-up after European Central Bank board member Benoit Coeure suggested markets were overestimating Spain's problems and did not rule out additional purchases ...

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 ...