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Politics shape investment choices: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... University of Miami released data this month claiming that investors are more likely to feel optimistic about financial markets if their preferred political party is in power, often leading to wiser investment decisions. "We found that when the investor's ...

QE2 is Gold(ilocks)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
Just right. Gauging from the financial markets' reaction, it appears that the US Federal Reserve has got its QE2 recipe just right. It was a little hotter than the US$500 billion risk assets have already priced in but not too hot as the US$1 trillion ...

Global Capital Investment launch Iraq Fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... Iraq's economy transitions, it is in the process of adopting legal and regulatory reforms that will make its financial markets more attractive to outside investors," said Merchant.

Head faked again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... Join the queue. Most of us didn't. But raise rates the RBA did. Head faked twice? That's what the RBA did to financial markets. Last month when everybody and his dog thought the RBA would go left, it went right. Yesterday, when everyone was expecting ...

The Cup, the RBA and the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... to pass the finish line in strides. We shall see! But even before the horses start running at 1500 hours, the financial markets would have had their Tuesday fix courtesy of the Reserve Bank of Australia. The RBA will announce its decision at 1430 hours. ...

Goldilocks QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... significantly. Yes, we can! Obama could become Uhm, I thought we could! Obama. The of course, next week will bring what financial markets have been waiting for - more Fed largesse. QE2 is coming! The Fed will come bearing gifts. Whether its US$250 billion ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... played once and when I made my first swing, the ball flew... along with the putter. This is perhaps what the financial markets are expecting of the Fed. To throw everything they've got - the putter along with the ball. Great expectations beget great ...

Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... stirring, not even a mouse". For exactly one week from now, all these shall pass. Exactly one week from now, financial markets would be unwrapping their early Christmas present from the US Federal Reserve. And as with any present, there would either ...

Political heat rising on ASX takeover

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... free-market economy," the West Australian Senator said. "However, because the ASX has a key role in Australia's financial markets this takeover has to be reviewed carefully from a national interest point of view under the foreign investment review board ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... always is when top authorities of the top nations meet, there's going to be too much chatter and too little done. Financial markets were right to expect that the brewing currency war would be discussed in South Korea. But they were also correct to anticipate ...