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Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Noi! Noi! Noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
... into Australia assets, with around 30 of those new entrants to the market, arriving in the last year." The Swiss National Bank is joining these A$ hoarders and Germany's Bundesbank will, in September. The A$ is now becoming a safe-haven... if it's not ...

She's becoming right, mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada and the Swiss National Bank announced that they were pumping more liquidity in the financial system - by lowering the interest rates on US dollar swap ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
Australian shares had held on to their slight opening gains at noon, led by defensive sectors such as healthcare and consumer staples. At 1225 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 24.8 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 4253.4, while the broader ...

A liquid Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... central banks -US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank - sent financial markets soaring overnight. Whoops, better make it seven central banks. Because a couple of hours before the ...

Dangerous currents

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... Central Bank, in coordination with the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank, is extending liquidity to banks in the Eurozone. Instead of the usual seven-day operations, these central banks will now "conduct ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... nervousness on markets, where speed is vital. Investors were also still absorbing Tuesday's shock move by the Swiss National Bank when it announced a minimum exchange rate of 1.20 francs per euro, saying the high value of the franc was a threat to the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... high price above $US1,921 an ounce on the London Bullion Market. It finished the day flat at $US1,895. The Swiss National Bank meanwhile set a minimum exchange rate of 1.20 francs per euro, saying the current value of the safe haven Swiss currency was ...

NZ bank credit ratings cut, outlook stable

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... Friday as the rating's agency followed through on an earlier downgrade of their Australian parent institutions. ANZ National Bank, ASB Bank (subsidiary of Australia's Commonwealth Bank), Bank of New Zealand (subsidiary of National Australia Bank) and ...

Bank planners more trusted than family: survey

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... say they rely on themselves to manage their finances, 40.4 per cent say they "completely or greatly trust their national bank". This is above the 35.4 per cent who say they trust their friends and family when it comes to finances. "It does show that ...

A "race to the bottom" in currencies

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... Yesterday, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand issued a surprisingly dovish policy statement while overnight the Swiss National Bank, heretofore the only "G10" monetary authority to have intervened in currency markets since the advent of the GFC, made a ...