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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... rise in eurozone inflation -- to 2.6 per cent in March from 2.4 per cent in February -- appeared to make a European Central Bank interest rate rise a certainty at its meeting next week. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed down 0.67 ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... to an economy that is already reeling from severe cuts in welfare and higher taxes. Speculation that the European Central Bank will raise interest rates as early as next month maybe just that... speculation. But if they do, then you can be sure growth ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... heartened after a joint statement from G-7 officials saying that the United States, Britain, Canada and the European Central Bank would join with Japan in a concerted intervention in currency markets on Friday. The Australian dollar rose to 98.72 US ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... New Guinea to more than 30 million ounces of gold. The gold price fell on Thursday on indications that the European Central Bank may raise interest rates to fight inflation. At 1213 AEDT the spot price of gold in Sydney was $US1417.10 per fine ounce ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... 4.64 per cent from 4.55 per cent. LONDON - The euro surged above $1.39 on Thursday after the head of the European Central Bank hinted a rate rise could come next month and major stock markets posted gains following strong data and results. Europe's main ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... interest rates will rise because of escalating inflationary pressures. Financial markets now expect the European Central Bank, for instance, to raise interest rates in August - yes, this year - after ECB council member Yves Mersch declared that "I would ...

Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... in VAT, sterling's past weakness and rising commodity prices. This echoed his next-door neighbour's - the European Central Bank - view that the recent resurgence in headline inflation is due to higher energy and food prices which are expected to ease ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... cent. In foreign exchange trade, the euro ran into profit-taking ahead of an interest rate call from the European Central Bank (ECB), and fell further thereafter, suggesting markets had curbed expectations of a rate hike early this year. The shared eurozone ...

Haste makes waste

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... strategist, Francesco Gazarelli, is singing the same tune. In an interview with Bloomberg, he predicts that the European Central Bank (ECB) will start raising interest rates in the "October-December period," because "What seems to be holding the ECB's ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... week that its purchasing managers index continued to expand. "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow." The European Central Bank's announcement that it would provide unlimited liquidity to governments and financial institutions and backed it with concrete ...