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No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... enough, just remember our friend Ben. He's still watching and stimulating, he's reinvesting the proceeds of his asset purchases, he still has "Operation Twist" in place, and he's not raising on interest rates "at least through late 2014". Easy money ...

SMSFs shift focus to property

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
... properties, acquisition of single properties with multiple titles attached and the use of holdings trusts for asset purchases and the GST concern with regular adviser reviews recommended. "Trustees and/or their advisers need to connect the inflows and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... meeting released on Wednesday, which showed that some participants wanted the central bank to resume large-scale asset purchases, or quantitative easing, to boost the weak economy. The bond market extended Tuesday's losses. The yield on the 10-year Treasury ...

Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... and from their April FOMC meeting minutes they told us that they are prepared to embark on "another program of asset purchases" if there is "a significant change in the economic outlook, or the risks to that outlook" - such as a 20 per cent drop in stock ...

No minute message in FOMC minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... before they do the deed. But if the economic outlook changes significantly for the worse, "another program of asset purchases would be warranted." This spells QE3 to me. And this ladies and gents, confirms what we at the Financial Standard Intelligence ...

QE2 overstays welcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... Financial Markets Association in New York to express his doubts. "I am less optimistic than some that additional asset purchases will have significant, durable benefits for the real economy." "... expanding the Fed's balance sheet is not a free option. ...

Goldilocks QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... want for an early Christmas. The Fed survey sought these respondents' projections on how large the central bank's asset purchases should be over the next six months, how it would affect yields, how often they expect the Fed to re-assess the program and ...

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... record, the US stock market is in for a treat whatever the Fed does. If it decides to implement a second round of asset purchases, some of the additional liquidity created would find their way into stocks. If it decides against, the US economy must be ...

Stimulexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... point in the future to provide more policy stimulus by expanding the planned scale of the Committee's large-scale asset purchases and continuing them beyond the first quarter..." Stop spending, start exiting "One member thought that the improvement in ...

Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... ECB could bring interest rates down some more if it wanted to, but announced no plans to ease policy - increase asset purchases and/or cut rates - any time soon. As for the BoE, there was really nothing it could do but keep interest rates at near zero ...