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Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... best when you say nothing at all." - Ronan Keating Or rather, they did - the voting and non-voting members of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC). Their conflicting stances did not settle the when of the lift-off issue one single bit at ...

The man with the golden jawbone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... president James Bullard who played the knight in shining armour. As MarketWatch reported on 16 October 2014, "The Federal Reserve should consider extending its bond-buying program beyond October due to the market selloff to see how the U.S. economic ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... "Never mind raising interest rates - Ray Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge fund, is predicting that the Federal Reserve will launch a fresh round of quantitative easing rather than tightening at its coming policy meeting in September." Sounds ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... expensive. As per Reuters, "With US interest rates near zero for nearly a decade, debt has been cheap. But with the Federal Reserve widely expected to hike rates later this year, merger and acquisition activity has increased. July was the seventh-strongest ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... 0.2 per cent contraction. LONDON - European stock markets rose on company updates and as investors assess the Federal Reserve's outlook for the economy. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index gained 0.57 per cent to finish at 6,668.87 points. In the eurozone ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... broader All Ordinaries index up 38.6 points, or 0.69 per cent, at 5,609.6. NEW YORK - US stocks rose after the Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate at near-zero per cent and gave no fresh clues on the timing of a long awaited rate hike. The ...

A$ down but would it stay down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... story, i.e., it depends on whether or not the Fed lifts and when it lifts. Will it? Can it? Not if you ask the Federal Reserve of Bank of New York. It published a research piece last week titled, "The Effect of the Strong Dollar on U.S. Growth" You can ...

The fat lady in concert on Sunday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... releases in-between. Though perhaps, I'll just take Gov Glenn at his word. "The forthcoming 'lift-off' by the Federal Reserve, when it happens, will surely be the most telegraphed monetary policy adjustment in history." But before that, the Fed would ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... too long for the region to recover, that it is a 'two steps forward, one step back situation." But following the Federal Reserve's QE program, "the US responded to the stimulus and is getting back to normal." The main difference with Europe is not only ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... 11,100.30 points. In foreign exchange trade, the euro hit a one month peak at $US1.1420 with the dollar after the Federal Reserve said any rises in US interest rates would be slow, before easing to $US1.1407. "US equity markets opened higher and spread ...