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Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... - predicted were it not for the counter-measures implemented by the Fed, the ECB, and the PBOC (and other major central banks) during the course of last year. But that's exactly the point. You don't expect central bankers just to sit and watch and wait ...

Uncertainly certain RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... strong Australian dollar - provides a summary of the rationales behind the near (92%) certainty that the Australian central banks will announce a rate cut by 0230 this day. Other rationales include: the RBA would not want to wait two months before acting ...

Corporate spending the catalyst for global markets

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... balance, assuming that the world economy will muddle through, that the European monetary union will survive and that central banks will implement more QE as and when required." "To break out of markets trading range we need to see some decisive news ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... points (0.94 per cent) to 12,811.78. European stock markets closed lower and the euro edged down after European central banks held key interest rates at record low levels and debt-stricken Greece approved new austerity measures. London's FTSE 100 index ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... Australian stocks look set to open lower following further falls on international markets overnight after European central banks held key interest rates at record low levels and debt-stricken Greece approved new austerity measures. At 0631 AEDT on Friday ...

RBA holds rates but deploys rhetoric as magic pudding

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... he was surprised by what he described as a very explicit statement on the part of the RBA. "It's well known that central banks cut rates when they are trying to get investors to add risk, but it is surprising that Stevens is saying that in his statement. ...

ETP flows eclipse 2011 totals

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... emerging market equities, China exposures led, followed by broad emerging market exchange traded products (ETPs). Central banks in China and Brazil have aggressively lowered interest rates in 2012. Investors hedged risk by putting money into gold as ...

Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... another global growth downgrade by the IMF. They returned with only a hope and a prayer that maybe, just maybe, the central banks would print more dough. We all know the Fed, the ECB and the BOJ all did - they answered the markets' prayers. Still, there ...

QE results in currency wars

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... Fed, the Bank of England, Bank of Japan, and Swiss National Bank." In just four years the balance sheets of the G3 central banks have expanded by US$5 trillion. Cobon noted that one of the direct consequences of this monetary printing machine has been ...

More jobs, more jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... market for international trade. These are the very same reasons behind yesterday's interest rate reductions by the central banks of Brazil and South Korea. The Banco Central do Brazil cut the Selic rate by 25bps to 7.5% -- the lowest since December 1997 ...