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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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... said the quarter point cut to 1.25 per cent was even more unexpected as it came at the first policy meeting chaired by new ECB chief Mario Draghi - known as 'Super Mario' in his native Italy for his self-assured record. The gloomy and increasingly uncertain ...

Work in no progress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... saga continues... And there's a further twist. While we're distracted by the Franco-German "disagreement to agree," the EU-ECB-IMF troika have released their report about the one that started it all. They've concluded their report on Greece. And what ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... lower in cautious trade marked by political feuding in Slovakia over a boost to the eurozone bailout fund and a warning by ECB chief Jean Claude Trichet that the world faced systemic dangers. London's FTSE-100 index closed off 0.06 per cent to 5,395.7 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... points, higher at 17,707.01. Shanghai was closed for a public holiday. Investors regained some of their confidence after the ECB held interest rates and announced measures to bolster under pressure eurozone banks. Also Thursday Britain's central bank ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... would not lead to a global recession after the Netherlands voted to beef up Europe's rescue fund. The European Central Bank (ECB) unveiled new measures to help cash-strapped Eurozone banks with additional liquidity in a bid to avert a possible credit ...

Action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... pump another STG75 billion ($A120 billion) into the stalled British economy under its quantitative easing policy while the ECB will offer banks longer term concessional funding. In London, the FTSE 100 index of top shares closed up 3.71 per cent at 5,291.26 ...

Bear killer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
It was so predictably predictable. What is? The Greek-IMF-EU-ECB and Germany tragedy currently showing at your nearest screens. Greece will meet its budget target, until it doesn't. The country's Finance Ministry revealed that Greece will not, will ...