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Fed sorted easy, now for the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... said. "The unemployment rate might tick up again." -CNBC "...if it stays in effect for the rest of the calendar year." The CBO estimates that it could reduce economic growth by at least 0.6 percentage points and reduce job growth by 750,000 jobs. Coupled ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... end of 2011 and 1.70% last night. And as Steve Goldstein - Washington Bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal - wrote: "The CBO... says the budget deficit would shrink by nearly $500 billion in just the first year if the fiscal cliff is triggered. From ...

Trading volatility can protect portfolio from big swings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
Volatility products can be successfully used to protect a portfolio against the turmoil striking international share markets, a top executive from the Chicago Board Options Exchange said yesterday. Volatility as measured by the CBOE volatility index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
The Australian market is set for heavy falls when it opens on Thursday with world markets again diving due to fears of a nuclear crisis in Japan. On the ASX 24 at 0733 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was down 76 points at 4,491, indicating ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... margin." And where would talks of fiscal deficits and government debts be without the United States huge fiscal deficit - CBO estimates a fiscal deficit of US$1,500,000,000,000 this year - and Japan's mammoth national debt - estimated at around US$11,000,000,000,000? ...

S&P and ASX launch Aussie "fear index"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Standard & Poor's and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) have launched an Australian version of the "VIX" volatility index, colloquially referred to as the gauge of fear on Wall Street. The S&P/ASX 200 VIX index will measure the expected volatility ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... last night. Not reinvesting these would be tantamount to reducing liquidity in the system. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the Fed's MBS investments would earn a record US$70 billion in profits this year. This follows a US$46 billion ...

Pengana launches global volatility fund

A new Pengana fund bears two industry buzzwords, 'global' and 'volatile'. After last night's S&P awards, it can now add "award-winning" to its name too. Having won the S&P's Innovative Product of the Year award, the Pengana Global Volatility has also ...

Daily economic update

... increased by 2.4 per cent. Interest rate watchers are also worried over the US budget. The US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the country's budget deficit will increase to US$337 billion in 2006 from a deficit of US$319 billion last ...