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Bullish sentiment at 4-year high, expect zero return in six months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... downs, it appears to they've been able to wean Wall Street off of QE successfully. Since the Fed's announcement of the final taper on 29 October, the S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq have appreciated by 2.8% and the Dow by 4.0%; the VIX index has fallen ...

Conditions and confidence collide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... different. The October survey was taken in the month when global uncertainties seemed to have all come at once - Fed's final taper, China slowdown, eurozone triple dip, geo-politics, geo-health, falling iron ore and gold prices, increased financial market ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after Wall Street rose on upbeat US consumer confidence. The US consumer confidence index has leapt from 89.0 in September to 94.5 in October, giving US equities a solid boost overnight. The positive sentiment ...

ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... recession... and by extension, deflation, is a real and present danger. This is where the success or non-success of the Fed's taper becomes important for the ECB. It engaged in temporary long-term refinancing operations (TLRTO) last month, it started ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... depends on market reaction to the result of the ECB's stress test (published this coming Sunday) and to the Fed's final act on taper next Wednesday. The ECB's stress test is expected to be stressless and the Fed would not want to invoke anything that ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... world health and financial market volatility. St. Louis Fed president James Bullard started the liftoff with his "pause on taper at this juncture" or even extend the bond-buying program beyond October due to the market selloff. Jimmy might not be a voting ...

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... near our target. And for that reason, a reasonable response of the Fed in this situation... we could go on pause on the taper at this juncture and wait until we see how the data shakes out into December". Did you hear what I heard? "Pause on taper". ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... weaker oil prices are just what the slowing global economy needs to get it going. If still not enough, there's still the un-taper and re-reflate, I mused about on this space yesterday. San Francisco Fed pres John Williams' singing the same song I sang ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... for a crash -- October being October - before the FOMC meets in a forthnight's time, the Fed might initiate Plan B - un-taper and re-reflate. The 64 million dollar question is would it work on the markets again this time as QE3 did after QE2... and as ...

Nikko AM ups weighting to global shares

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
Nikko Asset Management has increased its overweight in global equities in light of a positive macroeconomic environment and accommodative US monetary policy. The global investment committee of the Tokyo-based asset manager decided to raise its overweight ...