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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... policy meeting with speculation growing that the bank will cut its stimulus program. While a bipartisan budget deal in Washington fuelled hopes that another government shutdown will be avoided next month, it is believed that the deal will also give the ...

What's luck got to do with it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013

Waiting to catch up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013

Santa Claus is comin' to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013

Good, bad: all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... show up when the stats are revised...and the distortions a repeat of the shutdown would cause when bargaining goes to Washington again early next year. Even more so, not soon after the publication and formal presentation to the IMF of William English' ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013
... main interest rate to an all-time low of 0.25 per cent. Investors also digested news from across the Atlantic, with Washington reporting that the world's biggest economy grew a stronger-than-expected 2.8 per cent in the third quarter while weekly jobless ...

Trick or treat?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... 1.7% from 1.8% in August. And we're not even factoring in the likely disruption at the other side of the New Year when Washington resumes its game of chicken. Too, the re-tightening of financial conditions if this re-speculation of a taper in December ...

Taper trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... Treasuries rose to as high as 3.0% about a week before the speculated taper in September. Apart from the fiscal brouhaha on Washington, this is another risk factor that contributed to its non-taper. In the statement explaining its September non-taper ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... jobs data raised expectations the Federal Reserve will keep its stimulus program in place. The September report out of Washington showed the economy struggling to add jobs even before a two-week government shutdown this month that analysts say probably ...

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
Stronger, stronger, slowly getting stronger. Worldwide focus has been on the Fed and Washington over the past few months but that seems to have distracted some observers from seeing the positive developments across the Atlantic; though methinks Europe ...