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Glimmer of hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... been factored in into current pricing and has weeded out all the non-believers. Heck, even European - and Asian - central banks are reportedly stockpiling gold in their coffers when in the late 1990s Europe's central banks were jumping on top of each ...

Psychological asset classes run investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... get out before everyone realises this is a hoax'. And it is a hoax. Gold is not used in industry, its not used by central banks in a real way." Swanson said gold is a psychological asset class and as soon as that psychology breaks and there is no income ...

Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... Something must be done - and done fast. The financial markets' positive reaction to the concerted action by the central banks of the US, the Eurozone, England, Japan and Switzerland to extend liquidity to European banks suggests that financial markets ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... eurozone states. HONG KONG - Asia-Pacific stock markets extended a global rally after the world's most powerful central banks offered to inject US dollars into lenders squeezed by the eurozone debt crisis. The European Central Bank and its US, Japanese ...

Dangerous currents

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... National Bank, is extending liquidity to banks in the Eurozone. Instead of the usual seven-day operations, these central banks will now "conduct three US dollar liquidity-providing operations with a maturity of approximately three months covering the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
NEW YORK - US stocks got a boost Thursday despite poor domestic economic data after major central banks joined hands to ensure US dollar liquidity to Europe's embattled banks. In positive territory for the fourth day in a row, the Dow Jones Industrial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... investors were nervous and unsure which way the market would turn ahead Dr Bernanke's speech at a meeting of the world's central banks on Friday (US time). There's speculation he will offer hints as to how the Fed may act to stimulate the ailing US economy. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... nothing meaningful will be delivered," Mr Speizer said from Auckland. Dr Bernanke will address a symposium of global central banks in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday night, Australian time. During the local session on Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... easing (QE), will be needed to help the struggling American economy. Mr Bernanke will address a symposium of global central banks in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday night, Australian time. Bank of New Zealand currency strategist Mike Burrowes said these ...

Stocks in freefall on recession fears, banks cut mortgage rates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... extra liquidity." Economist Saul Eslake, program director at the Grattan Institute said neither governments nor central banks now had the means to respond in textbook fashion to the market rout. "If they do lapse back into recession it will be quite ...