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She's becoming right, mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... once 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
... convergence" 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 ...

A liquid Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... tough 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
... increase 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." ...

Worry me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... plan to make fiscal discipline legally binding and enforceable. These, authorities hope, would encourage the European Central Bank (ECB) to step up its bond market intervention. With rumours about gossips about talks again swirling all around, you get ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... economy. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy wanted German Chancellor Angela Merkel to drop her refusal to allow the European Central Bank (ECB) to become a lender of last resort for weaker eurozone countries but once again failed to get any movement. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... are feeling pressure on several fronts. European powers France and Germany are miles apart over allowing the European Central Bank to rescue the eurozone from a debt crisis threatening to engulf major economies. Also, Spain's borrowing costs have soared ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... Mario Monti replaced Silvio Berlusconi. Greece also has a new leader, Lucas Papademos, former deputy chief of the European Central Bank However, Asian markets fell Tuesday following a sell-off in Europe and the United States as dealers began to consider ...

Russell: ECB needs to come to Italy's rescue

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... in markets in the wake of earlier respite at news of the change in leadership. Reuters also reported that the European Central Bank (ECB) bought Italian government bonds in the secondary markets yesterday. According to Global investment giant Russell ...