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No minute message in FOMC minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... of decline - after the FOMC minutes revealed that while members have started deliberations toward normalising monetary policy - read, raising interest rates from abnormally low levels - this wouldn't be happening anytime soon. And - once the decision's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... (RBA) May 3 board meeting, released on Tuesday, showed the bank believes the current mildly restrictive stance on monetary policy, helped by the rising Australian dollar, is appropriate. The RBA said that "if economic conditions continued to evolve as ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... views about falling commodity prices - they put downward pressure on inflation and ease the need for aggressive monetary policy tightening, thereby assuring that the global recovery proceeds - as planned. This was the prevailing thought only a few months ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... points lower at 4,653. In economics news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) issues the minutes of its monetary policy meeting on May 3, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) issues figures on lending finance in March. In equities ...

May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... higher-than-expected inflation data from China and Germany and the Bank of England's unease over rising prices point to reduced monetary policy accommodation -- made more real by the Polish central bank's surprise rate hike last night. You, I, and Irene ...

Backpedals

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... Glen Stevens' statement. But by Friday of the same week, the RBA changed it tuned. In its quarterly Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP), Australia's central bank noted that, "underlying inflation is expected to be in the top part of the target band over ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... you forgotten that the Fed is still with us? It might be ending QE2 in June but it's continuing its "very easy" monetary policy for an "extended period". US Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren emphasised this in his speech last night. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... holdings." The Reserve Bank of Australia is broadly expected to leave rates on hold when it meets for its monthly monetary policy meeting on Tuesday afternoon, even though inflation is showing signs of creeping up. "The important thing this afternoon ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... news, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will release its index of commodity prices for May, ahead of its monthly monetary policy meeting on Tuesday. The RBA is broadly expected to leave rates on hold, even though inflation is showing signs of creeping ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will release its index of commodity prices for May, ahead of its monthly monetary policy meeting on Tuesday. The RBA is broadly expected to leave rates on hold when it meets on Tuesday, even though inflation ...