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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... output contracted in May after being affected by the number of public holidays. Data showed industrial production in the eurozone's largest economy declined by 1.8 per cent, after slipping by 0.3 per cent in April. Activity was undermined by the number ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... accommodative policy stance until the recovery is sustained." Couldn't have said it better me-self. Markit's PMI survey for the Eurozone was bad though with the composite PMI down to 52.8 in June (a six-month low); the manufacturing PMI down to 51.9 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after the European Central Bank announced measures to bolster eurozone growth. The ECB has rolled out key changes to interest rates and other anti-deflation measures which lifted the euro, US Treasuries ...

Nothing's good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... Australian exports of good and services jumped by 4.8% in the March quarter at the same period the US economy contracted, the eurozone and most of Asia slowed -and that we achieved this without sharply debasing the Australian dollar (down on average ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... unemployment may have just done it - that is, remove whatever doubts linger that Super Mario's coming back to save the eurozone. The European Central Bank (ECB) could be announcing something (anything) to ease monetary policy when the Governing Council ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... in San Francisco, jumped 1.4 per cent. LONDON - Europe's markets fell, but losses were capped as weaker than expected eurozone inflation data cemented expectations that the European Central Bank would implement monetary easing later this week. London's ...

Double boo boo on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... European Central Bank's (ECB) Council meeting later this week would be a big one and could be a game changer for the eurozone. The general consensus is that the ECB would announce some form of monetary policy easing after its meeting. It better not disappoint. ...

Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... below the 50 reading (indicating that the manufacturing sector remains in contraction). Maybe. The composite PMI for the eurozone slipped to a flash reading of 53.9 this month from April's final read of 54.0 but... it's in line with market expectations ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... projections" - but the latest economic growth update on the single currency region indicates that there is now no escape. Eurozone real GDP growth rose by only 0.2% in the first quarter - half market expectations. It's good, it's the fourth straight ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... yields as demand for fixed-income investments picks up. LONDON - European equities fell as investors digested gloomy eurozone data showing anaemic economic growth for the first quarter of the year. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index gave up 0.55 per cent ...