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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... to 9,377.41 points. Draghi's comments followed a call by the OECD to overcome its reluctance and undertake quantitative easing given the very weak state of the eurozone economy and the risk of damaging deflation as inflation is running at just 0.4 per ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... real GDP growth confirmed the Fed's positive outlook on the economy and gave meat to its decision to end its quantitative easing programme. And we all know, where there's meat... there's a barbecue. This is exactly what Wall Street did overnight - it ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... 0.35 per cent at 9,114.84 points. The Federal Reserve's withdrawal of its vast bond-buying scheme known as quantitative easing (QE), had earlier also hit sentiment across global markets. Stocks in the eurozone's periphery of Athens, Lisbon and Madrid ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... Industrial Average fell 31.44 points, or 0.18 per cent, to 16,974.31 points after the US Federal Reserve ended its quantitative easing stimulus program but said it would continue to keep its benchmark interest rate low.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... at 5,431.1 points. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have finished lower after the US Federal Reserve ended its quantitative easing stimulus program, but said it would continue to keep its benchmark interest rate low. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on ...

Unconstrained fixed income funds gaining institutional support

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
As central banks grapple with quantitative easing and markets look towards a period of instability, institutional investors are rethinking traditional fixed income approaches. Henderson Global Investors head of fixed income Phil Apel told Financial ...

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... commodity cycle. "For instance, 2011 saw the high tide for commodities coincide with strong liquidity flows from quantitative easing. This was ideal for the north-west bloc, with both the Brazilian real and Australian dollar reaching their peak values," ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... to counteract/reverse this state of affairs. Yes Virginia, it wasn't the ECB doing a Fed thing - announce quantitative easing measures - that markets expected, but it's good enough... for now. European equities rose to a six-and-half year high, most ...

Hold fire: Emerging market debt set for correction

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... months," he said. The success of emerging markets is partly attributable to a combination of cheap money and quantitative easing pumping liquidity into the system. Cheap funding freed emerging market central banks to relax their fiscal policies and allowed ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... Super Mario said so. In his interview with Dutch daily De Telegraaf, ECB President Mario Draghi declared that quantitative easing (QE) is "indeed possible within our mandate, namely if the purchases are aimed at ensuring price stability". We all know ...