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Another cut's in the mail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... lower than expected 2.5% Australian fourth quarter real GDP growth and concerns over the upcoming 17-18 March Fed FOMC meeting added negative impetus to the domestic equity market's dashed rate cut hopes. However, while the Fed did, indeed, remove the ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... panic, anxiety was clearly discernible in the financial markets' performance leading up to the Fed's 17-18 March FOMC meeting as speculation heated on whether or not the word "patient" would be deleted. The deletion of which is the Fed's way of saying ...

Patience, my dear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... monetary policy." The key to "guessing" whether or not that keyword will remain or would be deleted in this month's FOMC meeting is to look at what has changed (or not) since the Fed's 27-28 January meeting, most especially, changes to employment and ...

Big yawn on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... because of what the headlines didn't pick up. The latest update on inflation - the one the minutes of the Fed's 28-29 FOMC meeting highlighted. "Many participants observed the committee should remain attentive to evidence of a possible downward shift ...

Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... term might be slower than currently expected." These were the key phrases in the minutes of the Fed's 28-29 October FOMC meeting that, according to headlines, dominated financial market activity last night. Eureka! Rationale for the Dow's 0.01% drop ...

Investors should be wary of mixed USD signals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
Mixed signals coming from the US Fed's monetary policy committee should temper investors from overreacting to expectations of rising US rates and an increasing USD, noted Amundi Asset Management in its latest global investor update. Causing the ambiguity ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... prior to QE3, it's now at 5.9% But whatever happened to the Fed worries revealed in the minutes of its September FOMC meeting? As the Wall Street Journal succinctly put it: "Several officials worried at a Sept. 16-17 policy meeting that disappointing ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... outside the US could delay the hike (underlining the black and white print we read from the minutes of the 16-17 FOMC meeting released last week which, by the by, provided only a day's reprieve to the markets) - "If foreign growth is weaker than anticipated ...

Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... of the US dollar could come back to bite the US in the bum - the same concerns the minutes of the 16-17 September FOMC meeting (released last week) told us Fed officials were concerned about. But, but... but if I typed these months before, certainly ...

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... stability later on, that is a concern to me and to the committee". She told us so at her press conference after the June FOMC meeting. Last month, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) told us that, "the low volatility in asset markets could ...