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Market Wrap-Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly higher after solid German business confidence data and stronger profits from Microsoft, McDonald's and other major US corporations helped the Dow Jones finish about 0.5 per cent higher. At 0800 AEST on ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
Australian stocks market opened nearly one per cent lower on Thursday following Wall Street's lead where US markets tumbled following the Federal Reserve chairman's address to Congress. Austock securities client adviser Michael Heffernan attributed ...

Rates rise in Italy while Cypriot pension funds withdraw cash

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... funds have begun withdrawing cash from local banks that are highly exposed to the Greek sovereign debt crisis. The Central Bank of Cyprus said deposits by financial intermediaries had fallen from 7.5 billion euros in May to 6.1 billion euros in June ...

Yikes the ECB hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
The European Central Bank had lift off! There was hardly a ripple in financial markets when the central bank of the region with a single currency went ahead and raised interest rates last week. Darn straight Virginia, the ECB has just handed down its ...

Oil central bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... 3-3.5 million barrels per day - of OPEC"s total spare capacity. Saudi Arabia is what The Economist calls " the central bank of the oil market." Like the Fed it could engage in "quantitative easing" but not when the country itself plunges into turmoil. ...

Nigerian PenCom adjusts pension

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... instruments. Under previous regulations in Nigeria, only bonds issued by the Federal Government of Nigeria or Central Bank of Nigeria could receive investments by pension fund assets. This has now expanded to include those issued by any state government ...

Small thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
... store their gold given the mania that has developed for the yellow metal. The Financial Chronicle reports that the central bank of India - after recently purchasing 200 tonnes of gold from the IMF - is offering to buy the 201.3 tonnes remaining in the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
The Australian stock market has received positive leads from overseas, with Wall Street's key stock indices higher and commodities prices firmer. At 0810 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was up 20 points at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open in positive territory after strong leads from Wall Street. At 0813 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 23 points higher at 4,544. In economic news on Thursday ...

Gung Hay Fat Choy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... past in order to prevent its economy from overheating. It got what it wished for. How many times had the Peoples Central Bank of China (PBOC) raised interest rates in the past to try and slow its economy? It raised its benchmark lending rate from 5.31 ...