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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... policy committee decided to cut a further $US10 billion from 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 ...

UK on the go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... concluded that, "...the economy remains fragile and many economists expect the central bank to restart its quantitative easing asset purchases of provide other stimulus soon after former Canadian central bank chief takes Mark Carney takes over from governor ...

The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... got here through the kindness of the world's biggest central banks - ZIRP (zero interest rate policy), QE (quantitative easing) and now... NIRP (negative interest rate policy).... and this kindness looks set to go on and on... and on. The Fed is currently ...

FEATURE: Rethinking fixed income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... highlighted in May and June last year when hints that the Federal Reserve was looking at an early exit from quantitative easing sparked a 100 basis point spike in the 10-year Treasury yield. While there are a number of approaches available on the market ...

Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... safety due to headline news in Europe, the South China Sea, the Middle East and Africa. It's the result of quantitative easing. The end of quantitative easing will be a disaster. I think it's weird, but we ought to know by now that the markets (and people) ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... stock markets got a boost as the ECB pledged to further ease monetary conditions if necessary and hinted at quantitative easing to keep deflation at bay. However, stocks gave up much of their gains, with Frankfurt's DAX 30 ending the day up just 0.06 ...

Bottoms up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... growth in the US Federal Reserve's total asset holdings since 2009 settles the debate on whether or not its quantitative easing programme worked or not. Maybe not well enough on the economy, but too well on the stock market. This is where I ask, request ...

Aussie shares out of favour as managed fund investors go global

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... garnered a sizeable inflow of about $430 million. The US Federal Reserve's announcement that it would taper its quantitative easing program triggered an exodus from bond funds of more than $2.3 billion. Passive fixed income vehicles such as BlackRock ...

G-20 goes for growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... last week, expanded its lending facilities and promised to "... make an adjustment to our qualitative and quantitative easing without hesitation" if necessary. Weather or not, how's any bear gonna argue against these?

Action!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... that)... If the risk that you mentioned actually materialized, we would make an adjustment to our qualitative and quantitative easing without hesitation." We're staying tuned.