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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... points, or 0.64 per cent, at 4,297.7. US stocks have closed essentially flat on the eve of a crucial European Central Bank (ECB) policy meeting amid hopes for action to stem eurozone financial turmoil. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 13,047.48 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... been poor this week - well below averages," Mr McCarthy said. "We're seeing similar today. "It's understandable given the ECB (European Central Bank) meeting, non-farm payrolls (in the US), the constitutional court ruling in Germany next week, the FOMC ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... Apparently, Mario's trying to convince EU lawmakers that while purchases of long-term government bonds may not be within the ECB's mandate, buying bond with shorter maturities are. "If we are to buy long-term bonds we are in a very delicate situation. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... 1.58 per cent to 3399.04 points. Shares in debt crisis flashpoints, which had risen all day lifted by recent comments from ECB president Mario Draghi, pared gains by close with Madrid stocks up 0.73 per cent and Milan down 0.29 per cent. The euro fell ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... friends in the US not giving us much direction." Europe's main stock markets rose amid growing hopes the European Central Bank (ECB) may unveil a bond-buying program later this week, while investors digested poor manufacturing data. London's FTSE 100 ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... need a strong Europe." There's her finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, warning against raising "false expectations" on the ECB's capacity to stop the debt crisis. He was talking, of course, about the Draghi bond buying plan - the one that's got European ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... were closed for a public holiday. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets rose amid growing hopes the European Central Bank (ECB) could unveil a bond-buying program later this week, while investors digested poor manufacturing data. At close on Monday, London's ...

It's still the hole, stups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012

100% world recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... five boring trading days Virginia. Sitting and waiting and hoping - and reacting every now and then to hints of QE and/or ECB bond purchases - until TGIF when us all will be allowed to peer at what's at the other side of the hole, Jackson Hole, that ...