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Good memories

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
... so, grasshopper? He's been reported to be thinking of other ways to stimulate the economy. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Fed's mulling over a sterilised bond purchase program - printing dollars, buying long-term bonds and borrowing back the ...

Enough of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... demanding that Greece cuts back some more on its fiscal spending before it sees mo' money. According to the Wall Street Journal, "These policies include a 20% reduction in Greece's minimum wage, more than a,-3 billion of new government spending cuts ...

D-day deferred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... Hey, I might have been correct after all - they've kicked the crisis can further down again. According to the Wall Street Journal, "...a statement from Poland, which currently holds the EU presidency, on Tuesday afternoon confirmed a finance ministers' ...

Volcker Rule could slash Wall Street incomes 25%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... compensated based on the spread of transactions rather than on trading profit. Equity analysts have told the Wall Street Journal that the Volcker Rules if implemented as proposed are far reaching and could cut broking revenue by as much as 25%. This ...

Damned to default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... government spending cutbacks and raising taxes? How? How? How? That's why last week's breaking news from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that, "Greece is likely to miss its budget-deficit targets this year," is hardly surprising. According to the WSJ ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... between 103.15 US cents and 104.81 cents. The US dollar hit a new post World War II low against the yen after a Wall Street Journal report cited Japan's top currency official saying Japanese authorities do not plan to intervene often to prevent the yen ...

USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... Negative Publication date: 05-Aug-2011 20:13:14 EST" S&P made good its threat. Never mind that, according to the Wall Street Journal, "...Treasury officials discovered that S&P officials had miscalculated future deficit projections by close to $2 trillion. ...

Ready to turn on the tap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... these we get, the stronger the case for QE3 becomes. Here's Bloomberg's take: "Stocks rebounded after the Wall Street Journal reported that three former top officials at the Fed said the central bank should consider a new round of securities purchases ...

Higher US interest rates possible on downgrade

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... Jones Industrial Average falling for the fourth straight day, down 198.75 points, or 1.6% to 12,302.55, the Wall Street Journal reported. Demand for US Treasury debt was also poor at an auction, it said. Chris Molumphy, chief investment officer of Franklin ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... American crisis back in the late 1980s. It succeeded! Turns out I wasn't the only one thinking about this. The Wall Street Journal named two: Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance and Barry Eichengreen, economics ...