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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... high price above $US1,921 an ounce on the London Bullion Market. It finished the day flat at $US1,895. The Swiss National Bank meanwhile set a minimum exchange rate of 1.20 francs per euro, saying the current value of the safe haven Swiss currency was ...

A "race to the bottom" in currencies

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... Yesterday, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand issued a surprisingly dovish policy statement while overnight the Swiss National Bank, heretofore the only "G10" monetary authority to have intervened in currency markets since the advent of the GFC, made a ...

The power of optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... England (BoE) has formally implemented quantitative easing and is buying gilts directly. The reason why the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) lowered interest rates again last week. Even Australia has had bad news which ...

The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... 3.75 percent, the Bank of England cut its base rate to 4.5 per cent, the Bank of Canada to 2.5 per cent, the Swiss National Bank to 2.5 per cent and Sweden's Riksbank to 4.25 per cent. With its benchmark rate at a low 0.5 per cent, the Bank of Japan ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... $30 billion by the Reserve Bank of Australia, $30 billion by the Sveriges Riksbank, and $60 billion by the Swiss National Bank. As a result of these actions, the total size of outstanding swap lines is $620 billion. All of the temporary reciprocal swap ...

Dec 2007 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... markets. The US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada and the Swiss National Bank agreed to jointly inject more than US$100 billion into the financial system through repos, swaps arrangements and/or direct ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... billion available, and extra liquidity injections from the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Swiss National Bank, failed to stem the financial market panic. Consensus has shifted to a more than 80 per cent probability -- from 2 per cent ...

Central banks try again to lift liquidity

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... US Fed will increase the currency swap arrangements it put in place with the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank by US$10 billion (to US$30 billion) and US$2 billion (to US$6 billion) respectively. The terms of the swap agreements now last ...

Operation auction squad

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
... Reserve Bank. The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the US Federal Reserve and the Swiss National Bank have just announced a new plan to create an auction system where term credit loans and bonds can be put up to deposit ...

The price of pain

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
... banking system and Singapore's Monetary Authority added S$1.5 billion (1.16 billion). Traders estimated that Swiss National Bank contributed 2-3 billion Swiss francs (1.97-2.96) and our own Reserve Bank injected 4.95 billion into the banking system. ...
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