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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... 23,702.04. After a two-day meeting the US central bank's policy committee said it would bring an end to six years of monetary easing as the economy gets back on track. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index rose 14.305 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 5370.18.

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... response to reports that the European Central Bank might widen its stimulus program. Speculation about further monetary easing in the eurozone pushed the euro lower, while the US dollar gave up some of its US gains in early Japanese trade. Tokyo - which ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... weaker than expected eurozone inflation data cemented expectations that the European Central Bank would implement monetary easing later this week. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies dropped 0.41 per cent to 6,836.30 points, while Frankfurt's DAX ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... mixed after a tumble on Wall Street, with Tokyo weighed by a stronger yen as the Bank of Japan held off fresh monetary easing measures and said the economy was picking up. Tokyo slipped 0.24 per cent, or 33.08 points, to 14,042.17, while Seoul lost 0.15 ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... dollar advanced against the yen, but the gains were capped by expectations the US Federal Reserve will keep its monetary easing policy in place well into the new year. Tokyo jumped 2.19 per cent, or 307.85 points, to 14,396.04 thanks to the pick-up in ...

Rational exuberance?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... Morgan Stanley's co-chief global economist Joachim Fels saying, "We are at the cusp of another round of global monetary easing". Hip, hip... Mo' money for you and for me and the entire human race. Yes Virginia, be happy for even 'the maestro' (Alan Greenspan) ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... currencies suffered a torrid few days of trading last week as dealers bet on an end to the Fed's $US85-billion-a-month monetary easing. But figures showing a slump in US housing market sales on Friday allayed fears of an early stimulus rollback and led ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... however, which in turn pared early gains for Japan's Nikkei index, with fears over a possible end to central bank monetary easing continuing to drag on sentiment. Tokyo climbed 1.94 per cent, or 241.14 points, to 12,686.52 after slumping 6.35 per cent ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... more than six per cent, while the US dollar hit 10-week lows against the yen on expectations that central banks' monetary easing measures will end soon. Dealers in emerging economies also ran for cover, with the US Federal Reserve in focus amid fears ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... showing modest gains in US job creation eased concerns the Federal Reserve will soon start to roll back its huge monetary easing scheme. However, buying sentiment was tempered by more relatively weak trade data out of China that adds to concerns of a ...