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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... per cent, to 5027.9. NEW YORK - US stocks fell ahead of a busy week of economic news that includes a Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting and the monthly jobs report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gave up 36.86 points, or 0.24 per cent, to 15,521.97. ...

The recession we are promised to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013

Post-Bernanke uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... fine...except for the uncertainty that these five new faces -- and perhaps, new thoughts and votes - bring to the conduct of US monetary policy. Yes, now you get it. Markets hate uncertainty. Note that the Fed's policy making body, the Federal Open Market ...

The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... different reaction back on 22 May when yields started rising above 2.0%. It's all for the best. It's all for normalisation of monetary policy. A steepening yield curve signals economic growth, does it not? But it isn't only Uncle Sam that has an exclusive ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... its economy, it could reflate, it could do what it wants freed from the shackles of the single currency and the euro monetary system. Events of the past few years have strengthened my view. The more they engage in austerity - by raising taxes, cutting ...

Limbo of uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... whispers of a slowdown in China but only a few believed, paid attention or really cared, Japan only just unveiled a mammoth monetary policy stimulus and there was peace and tranquillity in the Eurozone. And oh, as far as the domestic economy is concerned...it ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... accommodating," he said, answering questions after a speech. "I think you can only conclude that highly accommodative monetary policy for the foreseeable future is what's needed in the US economy." IG Markets strategist Stan Shamu said the comments pushed ...

Reversing fortunes to another crisis?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... gains on US and European bourses despite the IMF downgrading its global economies' growth forecast. The International Monetary Fund trimmed its world economic growth expectations for 2013 to 3.1 per cent from the April forecast of 3.3 per cent. At 0815 ...

Lotsa data but no game change (yet)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... to be ECB President Super Mario's repetition of his commitment to lower for longer interest rates. "The exit from our monetary policy stance being accommodative is distant." Perhaps not so for the Fed. Not with the latest consumer credit data showing ...