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The Cup, the RBA and the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... Australia. The RBA will announce its decision at 1430 hours. I would bet that betting on the RBA's decision on monetary policy underwent more if not as much analysis as which horse to back on Cup Day. That may be. But the repercussions on the domestic ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... The Australian share market was higher at noon, as the market digested the minutes of the latest Reserve Bank monetary policy meeting, released late on Tuesday morning. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 18 points, or 0.39 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... points. In economics news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) publishes the minutes of its October 5 monetary policy meeting. In equities news, ANZ Banking Group Ltd chief executive Mike Smith addresses a Trans-Tasman Business Circle luncheon ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... talk and yielded... nothing. There were fingers pointed everywhere. China's yuan is undervalued, America's loose monetary policy, Japan's unilateral currency intervention, Brazil and South Korea's measures to prevent appreciation of their respective ...

RMB rise to benefit local investors

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... suit over the next one to two years. This is buoyed by Asia's expected faster growth than its trading partners, monetary policy tightened earlier than in the US and Europe, and a rosy outlook on capital inflows, said Wu. As a result, the Aussie and New ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... FOMC statement that accompanied the September meeting sparked speculation that the US central bank would ease monetary policy further - through quantitative easing - very soon. It would release more US dollars into the economy by buying more US Treasuries. ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... lowest on record. The negative spin: The economy is in so much trouble that the Fed remains unable to normalise monetary policy. Worst, it cannot lower interest rates further even if it wanted to. The positive: The Fed is determined to do all it can ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... Bernanke on Tuesday night. "The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) tonight release their commentary in terms of monetary policy. There may be a few people waiting to see what type of commentary Bernanke comes out with before they get overly optimistic ...

Recession over, now for the recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) will be asking themselves the same question when they sit and deliberate on monetary policy tonight. What they decide to do, or not do, is still anybody's guess. But gold's going gaga in the past few days suggests ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... at 4,693. In economics news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia publishes the minutes of its September 7 Monetary Policy Meeting, and Suncorp releases its Life Consumer Sentiments survey. In equities news, Fortescue Metals Group chief executive ...