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Aussies in top five for cashless transactions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
Australians have recorded the fourth highest number of cashless transactions per capita worldwide according to the latest report from Capgemini. The consulting and outsourcing firm's annual World Payments Report suggests cashless payments are forecasted ...

Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
Shots fired! Shots fired! Yes Virginia, Super Mario returned overnight and shot down the euro, putting smiles on the faces of holders of Eurozone stocks - Stoxx 600 up 2.4% -- and bonds - 10-year yields fell across the region. The euro dropped to as ...

Ipac head of technical services joins Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
Head of technical services at AMP-owned ipac Securities has stepped down from his role to join Perpetual Private as head of strategic advice. Colin Lewis had led ipac's technical services team for the past 14 years and has over 20 years' experience ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... returned to modest-to-moderate growth during April and May after stalling in the first quarter of the year. ECB President Mario Draghi praised the bank's stimulus policies and said there were no plans to end them more quickly than planned. "As long as ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... LONDON - Europe's equities have closed down, losing steam after an early rally on the back of European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi's vow to continue its stimulus program for "as long as needed" to stabilise prices. The mood of investors turned sour ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... possible drag on US exports. LONDON - German and French stock markets rebounded sharply after upbeat comments from ECB head Mario Draghi but the euro struck a 12-year low on expectations of a US rate hike. Frankfurt's DAX 30 index shot above the 11,800 ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... This is what Julius Caesar exclaimed when he crossed the river Rubicon back in 49 BC. The same phrase that ECB president Mario Draghi must be uttering to himself as he began spending the first euro of his a,-60 billion a month quantitative easing programme ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... September 2003 - after trading at $US1.1080 late in New York on Wednesday. The euro's further tumble came after ECB chief Mario Draghi said the bank will start buying government debt in its new quantitative easing program on Monday. At closing, London's ...

My QE, your problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... 8.9% down versus the greenback this year to date. The euro has also weakened against the yen - its main QE rival. Super Mario must be singing and dancing in the streets, his latest plan's playing out as planned... even before the first a,-60 billion ...

Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... dissipate". This gave me an eerie sense of dA(C)jA vu. For it was around this time last year, in Davos, that ECB president Mario Draghi also poo-poohed the risk of deflation. This was Rueters' headline on 24 January 2014, "ECB's Draghi doesn't see deflation ...