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Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... strong rally in Shanghai despite disappointing European economic and corporate data after Mario Draghi vowed to keep monetary policy accommodative. The euro fell to $1.2789 from $1.2850 late in New York on Tuesday. HONG KONG - Asian markets were mixed ...

Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... the slight adjustment upwards of the "dots" in the "dot plot" (of interest rate forecasts), she did. That is, she kept monetary policy steady and the "considerable time" wording intact. And then there were the Scots and their vote for independence from ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... above its potential growth rate". Yup, Kuroda san said this at his press conference on 4 September when the BOJ kept monetary policy unchanged as expected. Sure, sure... if Japan's potential growth rate is a big fat zero, that is.A Then it really is ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... near zero well into 2015. LONDON - Europe's stock markets have risen, boosted by hopes the US central bank will keep its monetary policy loose and expectations that Scotland will vote to stay part of the United Kingdom. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ...

Instant replay of the song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... current asset purchase program ends..." Read last night's FOMC statement (http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/20140917a.htm) and you'll find that nothing much has changed - it still talks of "significant underutilization of labor ...

Anticipatory and moderate adjustments had become necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... over China's premiership from Wen Jiabao on 13 March 2013 -- on this space before. For China is not a democracy where monetary and fiscal authorities set policy and wish and hope and pray that economic and financial agents react as they wished, hoped ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... posted solid gains following reports of a new Chinese stimulus plan as investors awaited Wednesday's US Federal Reserve monetary policy announcement. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 100.83 points (0.59 per cent) to 17,131.97. The broad-based ...

Hockey names infrastructure top priority for G20

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... funding of infrastructure, adding that Australia was already ahead of the curve in this area. He said that fiscal and monetary stimulus had by and large reached the limits of manageable capacity. "So growth over the longer term must be earned through ...

"Considerable time", is it a-changin'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... word? Two words to be precise. Speculation that the Fed would (or would not) change these two words when it delivers its monetary policy statement on Wednesday (NY time) has focussed the minds of many an investor lately and... wet the pants of others. ...