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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... unemployment. HONG KONG - Asian stock markets have closed mixed but Tokyo closed lower after the Bank of Japan (BoJ) announced monetary easing that was only slightly bigger than market forecasts and cut its growth outlook. With US markets closed because ...

Market Wrap

AMP  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... eased back after hitting four-month highs against the yen, which has come under pressure owing to expectations for fresh monetary easing by the Bank of Japan and upbeat US data. Tokyo fell 1.35 per cent, or 122.14 points, to 8,933.06 and Sydney closed ...

QE3, OMT, APP equals D-U-D?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... from $US1.2972. HONG KONG - Asian markets were mostly higher after the US Federal Reserve said it would keep its loose monetary policy in place until there is stronger evidence America's economy is back on its feet. The euro rose despite another round ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... European stocks closed higher as traders digested mixed economic data before the outcome of the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting. At 0628 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was down 10 points at 4,482. No major ...

Bad everywhere news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... 71%. Something that would sure worry the members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) when it begins is two-day monetary policy deliberations later today. However, I don't think anyone expects the Fed to announce anything of significance after ...

Don't ignore China banks: Macquarie

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... banks are domestically owned, he said. "It's a market in which China has complete dominance. And it's not related to monetary policy in western nations, which is something people tend to ignore," said Wang. Of course, China's economy is affected by decisions ...

Wen again gets what Wen wants

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... ago, he was quoted as saying that the Chinese economy is like a car "stuck in the snow" because "under excessively loose monetary conditions, further easing in monetary policy does not get the Chinese economy moving forward" and "this is a problem that ...

It's raining, it's pouring good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... surprising on the upside. It's still early days to go gangnam (hey, sexey leydey) but we may be witnessing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) doing its job one more time - as a contrarian indicator, that is. I've tracked the IMF's track record going ...

QE results in currency wars

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... economies, according to Threadneedle Investments. In the post-Lehman days, the Federal Reserve adopted a new framework for monetary policy with the introduction of quantitative easing (QE) and an era of central bank balance sheet expansion was born. ...