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A BRICS R5 Bank is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... action following an exodus of capital from emerging markets last year, triggered by the scaling back of U.S. monetary stimulus," says Reuters. "The bank will begin with a subscribed capital of $50 billion divided equally between its five founders, with ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... 23,523.28. China's National Bureau of Statistics said the economy grew 7.5 per cent in April-June thanks largely to government stimulus measures aimed at tackling a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy. The figure beat the 7.4 per cent in the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... market. "I think the market has however got a pretty good sense the domestic part of China's economy is responding to stimulus," he told AAP. "I would expect the figures to confirm that outlook." He said trading was expected to slow in the afternoon ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... market. "I think the market has however got a pretty good sense the domestic part of China's economy is responding to stimulus," he told AAP. "I would expect the figures to confirm that outlook." He said trading was expected to slow in the afternoon ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... June meeting of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee showed the central bank plans to end its bond-buying stimulus program in October but won't begin raising its near-zero benchmark interest rate for "a considerable time" after the asset-purchase ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... June meeting of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee showed the central bank plans to end its bond-buying stimulus program in October but won't begin raising its near-zero benchmark interest rate for "a considerable time" after the asset-purchase ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... China economist Qu Hongbin notes: "This month's improvement is consistent with data suggesting that the authorities' mini-stimulus are filtering through to the real economy. Over the next few months, infrastructure investments and related sectors will ...

Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... appropriate manner to help resolve financing strains for the real economy..." What happened since? We got Beijing's mini stimulus, we had the PBOC lowering reserve requirements for small and rural banks (and increased the number of those banks that qualifies ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... Chinese data. The US dollar and euro rose against the yen on Friday after the Bank of Japan said it would stand pat on its stimulus program despite fears over April's sales tax hike. Tokyo ended up 0.80 per cent, adding 124.31 points to finish at 15,097.84. ...

UK on the go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... fragile and many economists expect the central bank to restart its quantitative easing asset purchases of provide other stimulus soon after former Canadian central bank chief takes Mark Carney takes over from governor Mervyn King on July 1". Turns out ...