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It's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... America is losing momentum. And the rationales were selectively handpicked - jump in unemployment claims, disappointing Chicago and Richmond Fed manufacturing index, weak durable goods orders and falling house prices. And if that's not scary enough try ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... overly enthusiastic about tightening monetary policy too early." And to complete the trifecta, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President, Charles Evans commented that if a policy adjustment is needed because of rising commodity prices, it would only ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... Fed's still maintaining its quantitative easing program. Juts last night, Bloomberg reported that Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans believes that, "Despite recent improvements to the outlook, we are not yet at that point" when "a ...

Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... defected over to our bullish camp for the Fed's still got our backs. This is no better expressed than Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans when he told his audience in Rockford, Illinois that, "With unemployment too high and inflation ...

Speck of sand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... Commerce Department and the University of Michigan. They're no longer scared of dipping into their savings. Reports that the Chicago Purchasing Managers index rose by more than expected in January continues to trend of strengthening manufacturing activity ...

Liquidnet taps Malaysian equities

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... equity markets across five continents. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Boston, London, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney and Singapore.

Open fire roasted bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... US economy has awakened from its summer siesta. If financial markets ignored the better-than-expected readings on the Chicago PMI and consumer confidence published yesterday, they'll have to have their eyes checked if they still ignored the avalanche ...

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... Chairman Ben Bernanke saying, "...there would appear--all else being equal--to be a case for further action." There's Chicago Fed President Evans, "The US economy is best described as being in a bona fide liquidity trap" so "in my opinion, much more ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... he said that, "Additional purchases have the ability to ease financial conditions." Last night, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Charles Evans, backed his Chairman saying that the slow improvement on the US jobs front requires "more accommodation". Beggar ...

S&P and ASX launch Aussie "fear index"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... average of the implied volatility incorporated into the options. The calculation will use proprietary methodology of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). "The new volatility index will provide investors, financial media, researchers and economists ...