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Inflation no show

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... surprisingly lower-than-expected Australian inflation figures. I don't know about you but is central banking and monetary policy really as simple as this? I remember waking up to news yesterday morning with one talking head saying that if the CPI numbers ...

Wall Street takes a dive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... "the economic outlook remains unusually uncertain." The printed text of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's Semi-annual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress contained 19 paragraphs and 2,419 words. How and why on earth did financial markets zero in on these ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... weakened. Stocks traded near the flatline just before Dr Bernanke began his half-yearly testimony to Congress on monetary policy, but quickly headed south as he began to address the Senate Banking Committee. "The economic outlook remains unusually uncertain," ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... futures contract had risen 19 points to 4,347 points, with 13,804 contracts traded. The minutes of the latest monetary policy meeting of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) on July 6, which were released on Tuesday, show that inflation figures due on ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... Street's performance overnight - coming at a time when the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced its monetary policy decision and the Census Bureau reporting new home sales collapse to the their lowest level on record --highlights the continued ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... points at 4,531. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its June 1 monetary policy meeting and interest rate decision. The RBA also releases credit/debit card data for April. RBA deputy governor Ric Battellino ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... putting upward pressure on inflation. The best example of course is Australia. Here, the RBA has started tightening monetary policy way back in October 2009 taking the cash rate from 3 per cent to the current 4.5 per cent. Still, the economy continues ...

On caution's side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... the Australian dollar is already adjusting for these. Note that a currency depreciation is virtually an easing monetary policy. And just think the hit on confidence an RBA rate cut would deliver. Financial markets would begin speculating that, "something ...

Nein to naked shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... against inflation and political meddling. Then the euro was born, and Germany's Bundesbank gave up control of monetary policy to the European Central Bank -- the institution whose reputation for political independence is now being questioned. So what's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... debt-ridden Europe. In economics news on Tuesday, The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) publishes the minutes of its May 4 monetary policy meeting. Treasury Secretary Ken Henry delivers the Australian Business Economists' annual post-Budget address. RBA ...