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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... Overnight, Greek ministers began their final meeting to agree on austerity measures required for the bailout. The European Central Bank was due to meet on Thursday (European time) for its own rates decision, and traders were hoping for some sign of the ...

Eyes turn to monetary policy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... said that convergence on the issue of easing monetary policy would result in greater intervention by the European Central Bank to buy time for governments to reduce debt and absorb the 2011 China inflation scare. At home, "materially easier monetary ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... gains. Additionally, reports that banks would use an upcoming offer of very cheap three-year funds from the European Central Bank (ECB) to source twice or even three times the nearly 500 billion euros ($A618.77 billion) they took in December added to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... bourses. Reports that Greece could have a new debt deal in place by the end of the week and news that the European Central Bank (ECB) has been buying Portuguese bonds in the secondary market boosted European shares overnight. A fresh agreement from all ...

Stirrings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... crisis there. As a result, most European equity indices fell by more than 1% while we slept. And to think the European Central Bank's (ECB) long-term refinancing operation (LTRO) that injected liquidity into the banking system was doing just fine in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... euros at mostly lower rates in a bond auction, reflecting what was then still improved market confidence and European Central Bank efforts to boost eurozone liquidity. HONG KONG - Asian markets were broadly higher, boosted by strong bond auctions in ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... hit. Meanwhile, a surge in Italy's borrowing costs and comments from policy makers that quashed hopes of a European Central Bank intervention sparked a selloff in commodity markets, with oil plummeting 5.2 per cent and gold tumbling 4.5 per cent. At ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... strategist Imre Speizer said the local currency is simply following a downwards trend in Europe. "The ECB (European Central Bank)'s opposition to stepping up and doing a bond purchase program, and (German chancellor Angela) Merkel saying she was against ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... at a two-day summit in Brussels. A deal on tighter fiscal control is considered a crucial step before the European Central Bank will consider committing more money to lower borrowing costs of heavily indebted countries like Italy and Spain by buying ...

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. ...