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Ten days of secret planning to rescue markets
Britain orchestrated this week’s bold move by central banks to stave off a cash crunch in global markets, helping drive a plan that began to take shape around 10 days ago. For months, central bankers...
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Central banks can’t solve fiscal crises, Fed hawks say
By Ann Saphir and Pedro Nicolaci da Costa DALLAS/PHILADELPHIA – The Federal Reserve and other central banks must not succumb to calls for additional help from monetary authorities in the face of high...
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Brazilian ETF looks attractive after 23% downturn this year
Central bankers played the heroes this week, providing much needed liquidity to financial markets. Equity markets soared. Now, stock markets’ continued strength depends on eurozone finance ministers,...
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Clearing houses: the next casualty of the crisis?
Clearing houses — the plumbers of high finance — could become the next casualties of the crisis as regulators insist that banks run their riskiest and private trades through them. At the moment banks...
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Investors start 2012 with improved risk appetite
Investors kicked off 2012 with slightly improved risk appetite thanks to better growth expectations especially in the United States and hopes for central bank action, a closely watched Bank of America...
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Gold seen rising yet again in 2012
Gold’s record-breaking rally of the last decade is set to extend into this year and next as monetary policy stays loose and central banks build reserves, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday. Silver is...
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Canadian dollar proving less sensitive to risk
As private investors join central banks in diversifying away from the U.S. dollar and euro, the Canadian dollar appears to be growing less sensitive to risk aversion. Now that Canada has cemented its...
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Gold bulls grow as Paulson says buy
Gold traders are getting more bullish after billionaire hedge-fund manager John Paulson told investors it’s time to buy the metal as protection against inflation caused by government spending. Twelve...
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Market forces key for economic growth: BoC
Brazil proves that market forces can both boost growth and curb inequality, the Bank of Canada’s No. 2 policymaker said in Sao Paulo on Monday. In a speech that defended the pro-market focus of a...
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Gold set for another annual gain as investors hoard metal
Gold is poised for a 21 percent gain in 2012, extending its bull market to 12 consecutive years, as investors hoard record amounts and central banks expand reserves for the first time in a generation....
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Developed economies should expect growth in 2012: polls
By Jonathan Cable LONDON – Developed economies will pick up steam this year thanks to an array of ultra-loose monetary policies from major central banks and amid new signs of progress in the eurozone’s...
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UBS recommends cautious return to risk assets
Investors should move cautiously back into risky assets now the Greek debt restructuring seems to have headed off a euro crisis, as markets could turn sharply if the supply of cheap money dries up,...
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Gold bulls weakest in two months
Gold traders are the least bullish in two months after prices erased more than half of this year’s gain on speculation that a strengthening U.S. economy will dissuade the Federal Reserve from buying...
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Central banks should defuse financial threats: Bernanke
By Craig Torres and Jeff Kearns U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said financial stability is no longer a “junior partner” to monetary policy and central banks should try to defuse threats...
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S&P 500 beating gold by most since 1999
The best first-quarter gain for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index since 1998 sent U.S. stocks above gold by the most in more than a decade, a sign of growing investor confidence in corporate profits...
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All eyes on EM Asia central banks as interest rate decisions loom
With economic data coming out of the United States beginning to turn negative along with fresh signs of trouble from the eurozone, investors and observers will be keeping a close eye as policymakers in...
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Pension managers, investors must lower their expectations
The past five years have been one of the most challenging investing environments in our history. We’ve seen a near complete collapse of the global financial system, which was only saved by an...
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Central banks add to gold reserves
Argentina added to its gold reserves for the first time in nearly six years in September 2011 as the price hit record highs, mirroring the trend among emerging central banks to diversify further from...
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Fed forecasts may confuse more than clarify
The Federal Reserve tried to bring more clarity to policy making in January by releasing Fed officials’ forecasts for interest rates. Instead, it may be creating confusion. Policy makers Wednesday will...
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Investors favour U.S. stocks, euro bonds
Global investors boosted equity holdings to their highest in six months in October, even as world stock markets wobbled, and slashed cash levels to their lowest since February, a Reuters poll showed on...
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