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Yellen yawn turn to Yellen yikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... bank to deviate much - if at all - from her rhetoric of days gone by - when she delivers her semi-annual testimony on US monetary policy before the US Congress. And Janet Yellen didn't. We've heard it all: "Although the economy continues to improve ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... Tuesday thanks to the weaker yen, with investors largely unmoved by the Bank of Japan's expected decision to stand pat on monetary policy. Seoul jumped 0.94 per cent, or 18.84 points, to end at 2,012.72 and Sydney closed flat, edging down 0.1 points ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... interests while imposing significant costs on industry. The interim report notes some concerns with the fairness of some non-monetary covenants in SME loan contracts. It also raises concerns with the quality of financial advice. Our report was finalised ...

Run with bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... heard ECB President Mario Draghi's comforting words. Just last night, Super Mario told the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg that, "We will maintain a high degree of monetary policy accommodation. In ...

Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting..." -- Walt Whitman "The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee at its meeting today voted to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5%. The Committee also voted to maintain the stock of ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... witness comes in the form of three letters - OMT -- the one Super Mario announced back in August 2012. OMT or Outright Monetary Transactions involved the ECB undertaking outright open-ended purchases of government bonds of stressed members in the secondary ...

Fed alert to market reaction to Fed action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... how the FOMC took care not to spook markets and/or accounted for likely market reaction. For example, on the topic of "Monetary Policy Normalization", yup they're considering it but... it lest it spook the markets, add in "this topic was undertaken as ...

New compass needed for global economy: BIS

NATHALIE OLOF-ORS, AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... the geopolitical outlook remains "highly uncertain". "A new compass is badly needed," Claudio Borio, who heads BIS's monetary and economic unit, insisted to reporters ahead of the report launch. Central banks' bid to help spark growth, by, among other ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... this improvement won't be good enough for the Fed. As long as US economic growth remains not good enough for the Fed, monetary policy would remain good for markets. Lest you, I and Irene forget, Aunt Janet is still printing US$45 billion this month and ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... which, declining economic activity could turn into de-flation. To round up our biggest of the big - them who decide our monetary fortunes - we turn to Japan. The Markit/JMMA flash Japan manufacturing PMI increased to 51.1 in June. This is the first time ...