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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... directions. "Financial markets had a mixed response to the lack of news flow last night," she said. "The likelihood that central banks are unlikely to add to stimulus may have continued to weigh on equity markets after the Bank of Japan left its aggressive ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
... third-largest economy was "picking up". LONDON - European stocks fell sharply as investors grew increasingly concerned key central banks would step back from stimulus efforts that have been helping boost markets all year. Sentiment turned sour early ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... unnerved by the US dollar's sharp fall against the euro and yen, which came after both the European and British central banks kept monetary policies unchanged. LONDON - European equities fell after the European Central Bank and Bank of England kept interest ...

Gold as an "insurance" against inflation: Lazard

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
Gold can be a good "insurance policy" against inflation as global central banks are following a policy of quantitative easing (QE) that could devalue the money, according to Lazard. Lazard portfolio manager of Global Thematic Equity Nicholas Bratt expressed ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... events, including the release of Chinese manufacturing figures on Wednesday and weak European and US data with their central banks meeting this week to nut out policy positions. "Given the strong run in high yielding stocks recently, investors are probably ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... the golden ticket to ride the equity market. Thanks to its reporter in London, Ms. Sarah Jones, we now know that central banks have jumped on -- or intend to join -- the equity bandwagon. In her article headed, "Central Banks Load Up on Equities", Ms. ...

Global cooling on carbon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... personal wealth betting on the shiny metal (though it's still a paper loss until he sells his holdings). Just ask the central banks, which according to Bloomberg, has lost US$560 billion this year. I betcha Paulson & Co. and the central banks would not ...

Collapse does not signal end of gold party

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... fragility of the US recovery, on-going Eurozone weakness and continued high sovereign debt risks are likely to keep central banks firmly in aggressive stimulus mode," he finished. Meanwhile, the fall in the gold price has been bad news for the Aussie ...

Fool's gold?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... central bank's total hoard of 13.9 metric tonnes of the metal. That's' just 1.9% of total gold purchases made by world central banks last year. But you know the drill. Just like any other story that comes out of the Eurozone, it's about contagion. What ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... far below the double-digit growth rates these economies produced in 2007. The problem is that the BRICs respective central banks are straitjacketed by rising inflation. Annual consumer price inflation in Brazil climbed to 6.7% in February after steadily ...