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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... bond-buying program some time later this year and bring the operation to a close by mid-2014. The stimulus, known as quantitative easing, or QE, not only boosts America's debt-ridden economy, but is a major influence on share market activity around the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... Wall Street again provided a healthy cue, with investors betting the Fed will stop short of reeling in its "quantitative easing" (QE) bond-buying program. Tokyo added 1.83 per cent, or 237.94 points, to 13,245.22. But Seoul lost 0.65 per cent, or 12.31 ...

End of QE sounds death knell for 'zombie' stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
The tapering of quantitative easing (QE) will burst the bubble in high-yielding 'zombie' stocks, according to UK-based Duncan Lawrie Private Bank's James Humphreys. Stimulus measures by central banks in Europe, the US and Japan have propped up global ...

Aust shares weaken ahead of RBA minutes

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... themselves for news this week on whether the US Federal Reserve will pare its third round of bond buying, known as quantitative easing. Meanwhile, Elders' shares have dived 10 per cent, or 0.9 cents, to 8.1 cents, after emerging from a trading halt with ...

No need to fear 1994-style crash

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's suggestion that the time may be approaching to bring the central bank's quantitative easing program to a close. But Buckle says that the Fed is acutely aware of the importance of its policy decision and has every ...

Aust shares weaken ahead of US Fed meeting

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... negative territory. RBS Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell said speculation about the American central bank's quantitative easing policy, ahead of its meeting this week, was causing the Australian market to follow Wall Street's weak lead. "That's what ...

Fracking shock in store for US

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... in recent weeks as global equity investors consider the impact of a possible Federal Reserve pull back from quantitative easing. However, Beazley, who's business is focused principally in the Japanese market and has no US-focused portfolios, believes ...

Australian stocks weaker at close

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... analyst Stan Shamu said the deterioration in confidence had continued due to volatility in Japan and ongoing quantitative easing in the US. "Investor confidence has been rattled," Mr Shamu said. "There's been more blanket selling. There's been nothing ...

Markets poised on knife-edge: Standard Life Investments

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... only some evidence that investors are adding risk. People will only want risk assets until the punch bowl of Quantitative Easing is removed. "A scale back in the Federal Reserve's support could be as early as spring this year, not autumn next year."

Gold as an "insurance" against inflation: Lazard

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... Gold can be a good "insurance policy" against inflation as global central banks are following a policy of quantitative easing (QE) that could devalue the money, according to Lazard. Lazard portfolio manager of Global Thematic Equity Nicholas Bratt expressed ...