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Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... fully effective backstop for removing the tail risk of Europe." With these words, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi put a stop to months of speculation, hearsays and guesswork. Mario announced an open-ended bond buying programme which, henceforth ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... points at 4,295. The European Central Bank is due to meeting on Thursday (European time), with all eyes on president Mario Draghi for new measures to fight the region's stubborn debt crisis. In local economic news on Thursday, The Australian Bureau of ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... 3399.04 points. Shares in debt crisis flashpoints, which had risen all day lifted by recent comments from ECB president Mario Draghi, pared gains by close with Madrid stocks up 0.73 per cent and Milan down 0.29 per cent. The euro fell to $US1.2562, compared ...

No change - no mas, no less

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... printed that Frau Merkel's man in the ECB - German ECB executive board member Jorg Asmussen - is backing ECB President Mario Draghi's plan for large-scale bond purchases. This followed yesterday's news that the Bundesbank (in its monthly report), said ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... 5,047 contracts traded. Overseas markets continued to rise overnight on hopes the European Central Bank president Mario Draghi was getting closer to taking action on the eurozone sovereign debt crisis. Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average added ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
... investors around the world had increased risk exposure in recent days in response to European Central Bank president Mario Draghi's indication that lowering the level of Spanish bond yields fell within the mandate of the ECB. US stocks closed in the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... said the Australian market had followed the overseas leads. "The main driver was the comments by the ECB president Mario Draghi who, basically, suggested they would do everything in their power to keep the euro intact," he said. "That drove risk assets ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... said the Australian market had followed the overseas leads. "The main driver was the comments by the ECB president Mario Draghi who, basically, suggested they would do everything in their power to keep the euro intact," he said. "That drove risk assets ...

Believe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
"C'mon baby light my fire..." That exactly was what European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi did when he spoke at the Global Investment Conference in London last night. Read his lips: "To the extent that the size of these sovereign premia ...

All juiced up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... Two central bank authorities did just that last night. While keeping interest rates on hold at 1.0%, ECB president Mario Draghi reminded all you bears wearing shorts that, "We monitor all developments closely and we stand ready to act" should the Eurozone's ...