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Market flat at noon

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... years. Airline Qantas declined three cents to $3.21 after it said it will begin direct flights between Sydney and San Francisco six days a week from December under an expanded co-operation agreement with American Airlines.

Lies, stats and damned double seasonal adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
"If you're going to San Francisco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair... There's a whole generation with a new explanation..." - Scott McKenzie, "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)" The song instantly played in my head as ...

The first is always the best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... (honcha?) statement at "The New Normal Monetary Policy" research conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco last month when she discussed the whys and wherefores of "Normalizing Monetary Policy: Prospects and Perspectives" two ...

2015: a lift year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... I and Irene at the "The New Normal Monetary Policy" research conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco when she discussed the whys and wherefores of "Normalizing Monetary Policy: Prospects and Perspectives". (http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/yellen20150327a.htm) ...

From the mouths of Feds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... the start of this week and in different corners of the world at that. From the mouths of Feds: Monday, 23 March : San Francisco Fed president John Williams (in Sydney and Melbourne via video conference), "Things are looking better-in fact, they're looking ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... (0.15 per cent) at 2,110.74. Tech giant Apple gained 1.3 per cent after it sent invitations for a March 9 event in San Francisco expected to launch the Apple Watch. Other outperformers that helped lift Nasdaq near 5000, a level not breached since the ...

AustralianSuper appoints Principal to advise on US real estate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... focus on large, high-quality office investments in major US markets, including New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Investments will be made either directly or through joint ventures in properties of US$200 million or greater. ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... being careful... for they might come true. 'Twas not so long ago that Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) and the IMF worried about complacency in the financial markets as indicated by low, down on the ground, volatility. ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... it going. If still not enough, there's still the un-taper and re-reflate, I mused about on this space yesterday. San Francisco Fed pres John Williams' singing the same song I sang, humming to Reuters that, "If we really get a sustained, disinflationary ...

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... committee". She told us so at her press conference after the June FOMC meeting. Last month, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) told us that, "the low volatility in asset markets could, in part, reflect market participants' relative certainty ...