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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... or 0.3 per cent, at 5,890 points. NEW YORK - The Dow and S&P 500 have bolted to fresh records after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen pledged a cautious approach to raising interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday rose 92.35 points ...

Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... markets are on hold while awaiting the next big thing coming our way tomorrow and the day after tomorrow - and her name is Janet. The Fed Chairman will be testifying on monetary policy before the Senate Banking Committee those days. Shouldn't markets ...

It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... but doesn't guarantee, that they will drop the "patient" phrase in the March statement." Will she, won't she? Would Aunt Janet drop the "patient" phrase in March, and then two Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings thereafter - April then June ...

Currency warriors, mount horses and draw swords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... Draw your swords! War - armed, currency or trade -- as the song goes, is good for absolutely nothing. The good news, Aunt Janet's "patience" could last beyond this year.

A Fed surprise?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
Will she, won't she? Will Aunt Janet follow the other central banks' surprises of the past two weeks and spring her own at the conclusion of the US Federal Open Market Committee meeting (FOMC) tomorrow? If she does, then baby, that indeed would be a ...

Nearly there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... then lost as much as 1.0%, before closing 0.3% in the red. Remember last year when almost everybody and his dog (even Aunt Janet) were ruing the lack of volatility in the market because it wasn't good? We've got it. Volatility has returned! And still ...

Big yawn on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... withdrawal symptoms. For extrapolate further and normal organic growth means Fed normalisation of monetary policy which means Janet's "considerable time" before raising interest rates might not be so considerable anymore. Sure, sure there's the disappointing ...

China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... on the up while the S&P 500 and the Russell 2000 closed 0.2% and 0.1% lower. No one wants to jump in or out before Aunt Janet tells you, I and Irene for sure that QE's done but more importantly, what happens next. While we wait... and wish and hope and ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Talk about being careful... for they might come true. 'Twas not so long ago that Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) and the IMF worried about complacency in the financial markets as indicated by low, down on the ground ...

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... the highest since February this year - before closing at a still high 18.76. But, but... but isn't this a good thing? Mama Janet Yellen wants it because "...low levels of volatility may induce risk-taking behavior that for example entails excessive build-up ...