Posted by Reuters: Business News on February 5, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) – After a blockbuster January for both equities and bonds – rallies that caught many in the market by surprise – investors will be paying keen attention to the world’s central banks in the coming week for signs of continued easy money.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on February 4, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) – After a blockbuster January for both equities and bonds – rallies that caught many in the market by surprise – investors will be paying keen attention to the world’s central banks in the coming week for signs of continued easy money.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 31, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) – Investors have begun 2012 in a cautious mood, with U.S. and Japanese asset managers worried about the euro zone debt crisis cutting exposure to stocks and boosting bonds, while European accounts added risky assets, Reuters polls show.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 21, 2011
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Banks took a huge 489 billion euros at the European Central Bank’s first ever offering of three-year funding on Wednesday, raising hope a credit crunch can be avoided and that the money may be used to buy Italian and Spanish bonds.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 15, 2011
BERLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s top central banker said on Thursday that euro zone governments are on the right track to restore market confidence but reminded them that an emergency program to buy their bonds was “neither eternal nor infinite”.
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain saw solid demand for its bonds on Thursday, paying more than 2 percentage points less to borrow over 5-years than Italy a day earlier as budget cuts helped ease concerns it could be among the next to fall in the euro zone’s debt crisis.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 23, 2011
LONDON (Reuters) – A “disastrous” sale of German benchmark bonds sparked fears on Wednesday the debt crisis was beginning to threaten even Berlin, with the Bundesbank forced to dig deep into its pockets to ensure the auction did not fail.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 18, 2011
(Reuters) – Seven banks that helped MF Global Holdings Ltd sell bonds were sued by pension funds who said the bonds’ offering prospectuses concealed problems that led to the futures brokerage’s collapse.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 13, 2011
NICOSIA (Reuters) – A haircut of Greek debt is damaging to Greece and the euro area, and has stoked wider concern about possible impairment of bonds in other euro zone members, ECB Governing Council member Athanasios Orphanides said in a newspaper interview on Sunday.
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Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 10, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks steadied on Thursday as the European Central Bank’s purchase of Italian bonds helped calm markets queasy over the euro zone debt crisis.
