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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... the US cental bank's monthly bond-buying, known as quantitative easing (QE), and maintain its "highly accommodative" monetary policy of record-low interest rates. Policymakers added in an upbeat statement that US economic growth "has rebounded in recent ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... retain ultra-low interest rates has boosted the local share market. US markets reacted positively to the Fed Reserve's monetary policy announcement, with the S&P 500 index hitting a new record. "The US central bank has said the weaker than expected US ...

The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... decided to intensify preparatory work related to outright purchases in the ABS market to enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." The ECB's recent policy action has taken us back to the "bad news is good news and good news ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... decided to intensify preparatory work related to outright purchases in the ABS market to enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." And here in lies the rub-a-dub-dub, the ECB could be in tub. That promise of QE - that it ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... Mario's coming back to save the eurozone. The European Central Bank (ECB) could be announcing something (anything) to ease monetary policy when the Governing Council meets two days from now on the June 5th. Inflation's crying for action. Eurostat's preliminary ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... as weaker than expected eurozone inflation data cemented expectations that the European Central Bank would implement monetary easing later this week. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies dropped 0.41 per cent to 6,836.30 points, while Frankfurt's ...

Double boo boo on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... big one and could be a game changer for the eurozone. The general consensus is that the ECB would announce some form of monetary policy easing after its meeting. It better not disappoint. Last night's action on Wall Street shows what happens when markets ...

So bad it's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... reason to expect anything else but a spring back in spring. (There's also Aunt Janet ready to pounce if it doesn't - "monetary policy is not on a pre-set course"). More so, because more up-to-date US economic stats point to a turnaround after the severe ...

Survey reveals investors greatest fear in 2014

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... respondents believe the likelihood of a hard landing occurring in the next two years is 50% or more. Market implications of monetary policy and the level of economic activity continued to rank high on investors' list of issues to watch for the global ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... covered all the bases. But it could also be that Fed Chair Janet Yellen's forward guidance -- that "a high degree of monetary accommodation remains warranted" and the FOMC would not be in a rush to lift interest rates - is working as she desires. This ...