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Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
Ask not when the Fed would start raising interest rates but whether the Fed should re-launch QE. Let's take a trip back to 29 July, Virginia - the day the Fed released its policy statement at the conclusion of its 28-29 July FOMC meeting - it was sliced ...

Bangkok bombs and Malaysia's terror

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... This presents a dilemma for Bank Negara Malaysia in terms of interest rate policy management - it needs to lower interest rates to support growth but higher rates to tame inflationary pressures. However, this is a small beer problem compared with the ...

Empire State bombs out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... reading of plus 4.26. With stats like these, who wouldn't wet their pants... or be happy that the Fed would keep interest rates on ice for a long while longer? More so, if you consider that the index had been hit by export weakness because of the strong ...

WAM Capital poised to pounce in mixed market

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... next 12 months remains mixed. "In FY2016, we expect the Australian equity market will continue to benefit from low interest rates and improving domestic economic conditions," he said. "In our opinion we are in the mature stages of this six-year bull ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... likely to be transient - largely affected by the uncertainty over the Greek debt crisis during the period. With ECB interest rates remaining at record lows and the central bank continuing to flood the market with liquidity with its a,-60 billion monthly ...

Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... to US Treasuries in the Goldman Sachs Global Strategic Bond fund and a corresponding long position in Canadian interest rates, anticipating weakness in commodity-driven economies. Amid ongoing weakness in peripheral Europe, Reynolds is holding some Italian ...

Magellan doubles profit, boosts FUM

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... Douglass' call to increase the cash weighting to 15% over the year: "That is positioning ourselves for increasing interest rates in the United States and potentially increased volatility later this year," he said. "It has contributed to our returns because ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... reviving market focus on M&A deals. Gotta get in before funding costs become more 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 ...

Water, water everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... coined for the Bank of England's (BOE) data dump - announcing the monetary policy committee's (MPC) decision on interest rates, the MPC meeting minutes that led to the decision and the quarterly inflation report all in one go -- on Thursday, 6 August ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... they see, heard and think... today. Tomorrow is another day. Surely, there isn't anything wrong if the Fed lifts interest rates - even tomorrow - if it knows for sure that the economy would be able to handle it (and does). And what central banker doesn't ...