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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. ...

PIGS!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... process just as it did back in August after it downgraded the USA's triple A over the budget standoff. So did European Central Bank governing council Christian Noyer. "They changed their methodology and it's now more linked to political factors and less ...

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 ...

A liquid Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... because the tough (central banks) got going. Six of the world's biggest central banks -US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank - sent financial markets soaring overnight. Whoops ...

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 ...