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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... entering a "new economic cycle" dominated by debt reduction, and thus of tough times ahead. Sarkozy expressed confidence that the ECB would take extra action in a new climate of budget discipline, and said he would meet Merkel on Monday to agree upon ...

A liquid Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... one and all the central banks' determination not to let one and all go down the gurgler. A Merry Christmas to you too Fed, ECB, BOJ, BOE, BOC and SNB. And you, PBOC. =========================================== Meet Ben Ong, Financial Standard's Chief ...

Worry me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... make fiscal discipline legally binding and enforceable. These, authorities hope, would encourage the European Central Bank (ECB) to step up its bond market intervention. With rumours about gossips about talks again swirling all around, you get the feeling ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... France's President Nicolas Sarkozy wanted German Chancellor Angela Merkel to drop her refusal to allow the European Central Bank (ECB) to become a lender of last resort for weaker eurozone countries but once again failed to get any movement. In the absence ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... news that European officials are discussing ways to get around the Eurozone-imposed legal restrictions that is preventing the ECB from providing liquidity to combat the crisis. Rumours have it that the idea is for the ECB to the IMF - which is legally ...

Russell: ECB needs to come to Italy's rescue

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... in the wake of earlier respite at news of the change in leadership. Reuters also reported that the European Central Bank (ECB) bought Italian government bonds in the secondary markets yesterday. According to Global investment giant Russell, the ECB needs ...

Second best month of the year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... sign in front of European equities by November's end - barring of course, another "Murphy's Law" moment in Europe. Former ECB VP Lucas Papademos has replaced resigned Greek PM George Papandreou and former EU competition commissioner Mario Monti chosen ...

Arrivederci Berlusconi Ciao

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... and/or boosting economic activity. If the Italian government's borrowing costs don't come down soon, the European Central Bank (ECB) may need to shop for more Italian bonds, or the EFSF would need to come into play - and definitely need to be expanded/leveraged ...

Buy the headline, sell the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... uncertain of times. Hope was also in Bloomberg's headline, "U.S. Stocks Advance as Stark Predicts EU Crisis to Be Controlled". ECB executive board member Jurgen Stark told his audience in Lucerne, Switzerland that he expects the debt crisis to be under ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... start the country's economic recovery. Global markets also rallied on news of an interest cut by the European Central Bank (ECB). At 1219 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 95.1 points higher, or 2.28 per cent, at 4,266.9, while the broader All ...