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Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R Morris, is that while central banks try to moderate money supply to suit economic conditions, investment banks on the other hand tend to expand credit supply ...

Time to get radical: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... systems and securities markets failed simultaneously, he said. But what's worrying the IMF even more is that solutions central banks have been putting in place may be setting the scene for follow-up problems that just reinforce the situation we are trying ...

Central banks try again to lift liquidity

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
Several of the world's most prominent central banks, led by the US Federal Reserve, overnight announced details of the latest scheme - basically looser lending, by them, to select counterparties - that they hope will help revive liquidity in interbank ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... the Federal Reserve said it would inject up to $US200 billion into tight credit markets in coordination with other central banks around the world. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 416.66 points, or 3.55 per cent, to 12,156.81 and the Standard ...

Marsupials and the money market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... are now at a four year and almost all time high after this morning's US rate rise, putting even more pressure on central banks around the world to follow suit irrespective of local fundamentals. The US rate drop to just 3 per cent lifts the gap Australia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... people start focusing on the solution to this and not the problems, and the solution being taken by the various central banks and the US Federal Reserve on interest rate movement, it will start to stimulate a bit more confidence back into the economy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... Australian stock market is expected to open lower today after US stocks fell on scepticism about a plan by global central banks to revitalise credit markets. Metals in London were lower overnight. At 0809 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
... overnight, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 41.13 points, or 0.31 per cent, to 13,473.9. The world's leading central banks provided good news by promising to inject more liquidity into the banking system to help fight the credit squeeze. But it ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
... open higher today following a positive lead from Wall Street as US stocks rose after the Federal Reserve and other central banks sought to ease a global credit crunch. Metals in London were mixed overnight. At 0820 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Markets not governments set interest rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... just released a report arguing that the expanding role of pension funds, mutual funds, oil-rich countries and Asian central banks is redefining how the global economy should be managed. This is because the influx of liquidity provided by these players ...