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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... LONDON - European stock markets lost ground on Thursday as remarks on the Greek crisis by the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) failed to reassure anxious investors. ECB head Jean-Claude Trichet ruled out a Greek debt default and insisted that ...

Troubled Greece to freeze pensions

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... revive its ramshackle economy. Greece reached the agreement with the IMF, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank in early May. The $157 billion financing package came with conditions, including budget cuts, a freeze in wages and pensions ...

Still waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... per cent) as a result of poor labour market conditions. There was not much change in Europe either. The European Central Bank and the Bank of England both kept their respective policy interest rates steady. And in Greece...the sage continues. And in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... after two months of growth. Sentiment on European exchanges earlier in the day had been supported by the European Central Bank's decision to hold eurozone interest rates at a record low 1.0 per cent while starting a process to withdraw some of the special ...

L-U-V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... unconvinced. And so LUV was born. L - is for the developing market consensus on the Eurozone. The rationale? The European Central Bank (ECB) is becoming more and more impatient about withdrawing stimulus. At week's end, President Trichet indicated that ...

Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... recorded in the previous month. The fragility of the Eurozone's economic outlook is the main reason behind the European Central Bank's (ECB) decision to keep interest rates at a low 1.0 per cent - where they have been since May 2009 - when its Governing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... markets made modest gains on Thursday, powered by positive US employment data and upbeat comments from the European Central Bank on eurozone growth prospects. In London, the FTSE 100 index rose 17.75 points, or 0.35 per cent, to close at 5,125.64. FRANKFURT ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... sank 34 per cent. Shares in BP ended the day 4.81 per cent higher. Banking stocks fell sharply after the European Central Bank said that bank lending to the private sector in the 16 countries that use the euro currency shrank in September for the first ...

Our fearful trip is done

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... before the 1990/91 recession ended. They fell by 19 per cent before the 2001 recession ended. Meanwhile, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England are keeping their sails aloft, determined to reach dry land. Both kept interest rates unchanged ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... fell 19.89, or one per cent, to 1973.16. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets perked up as the head of the European Central Bank voiced confidence about the prospects of an economic recovery and Britain pumped liquidity into its economy. On the back ...