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Glimmer of hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... mouths. The recent update talks of Greece's meeting with the troika of alms-givers - the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The conclusion (for now), their emergency over-the-weekend meeting produced a 'near' ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... reported "productive and substantive" talks with its lenders, the EU, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Central Bank (ECB), to hammer out a response to serious slippage from agreed budget targets. Markets were increasingly expecting Greece ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... powerful central banks offered to inject US dollars into lenders squeezed by the eurozone debt crisis. The European Central Bank and its US, Japanese, Swiss and British counterparts announced on Thursday they would act in concert to lend US dollars to ...

Dangerous currents

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... See what a little concerted, decisive action does. Global equity markets rallied following news that the European Central Bank, in coordination with the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank, is extending ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... conditions - reinforced beliefs that the economy is stagnating. But stock prices surged again after the European Central Bank, along with its US, Japanese, Swiss and British counterparts, announced they would act in concert to inject extra US dollar ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... (2.42 per cent) to 2,467.99. Early losses on Wall Street accelerated after the unexpected news that the European Central Bank's chief economist, Juergen Stark, was resigning "for personal reasons". Hours after his resignation was announced, Stark called ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... later recovered to $US1.4109 in late afternoon trading against $US1.4203 late on Friday. The head of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet warned Monday of an immediate and imperative need for enactment of a second debt rescue for Greece, and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... ahead sharply on figures that showed the Japanese economy is doing better than expected. Also overnight, the European Central Bank revealed it spent 22 billion euros ($A30.44 billion) last week - more than it has ever done before - to prop up the bond ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... - Global stocks took another pounding as worries over the downgrade of US debt outweighed relief at the European Central Bank's purchase of Italian and Spanish bonds to help the two countries avoid devastating defaults. The world's leading financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... United States was on the brink of a new economic downturn. Markets were also buoyed by rumours that the European Central Bank was buying Spanish and Italian government bonds, which have been pummelled in recent days as investors fret about the solvency ...