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Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... Janet Yellen may have said a lotta things in her two-day gabfest to the US Congress last week but the bottom line is that taper is on cruise control and US interest rates would remain low long after asset purchases end. That's another way of saying we're ...

Super needs a radical new solution to longevity: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
Former Prime Minister and superannuation system architect Paul Keating says the government needs to create 'superannuation mark two' to enable superannuation to provide enough money for retirees who are increasingly likely to become centenarians. Speaking ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... Chair Janet Yellen told Congress the US economy was on track for "solid growth" in the second quarter and that the stimulus taper would continue steadily. Tokyo reversed the previous day's fall to close up 0.93 per cent, or 130.33 points, at 14,163.78. ...

Janet puts it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... improved appreciably, they are still far from satisfactory" and inflation remains below the Fed's 2% target. She expects taper to continue on its "current course" and end later this year (in the Northern Hemisphere fall). "If the labor market continues ...

Bored to zzz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... about. Bring back those days I say. These days, it's a real struggle to come up with something new. If it's not about the taper - which is on autopilot - it's about America's improving economy (maybe) or China's slowing one (maybe) or Europe's deflation ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
Phew! That was close. No Virginia, we didn't hear this sigh of relief from European Central Bank president Mario Draghi yesterday, but we would have had the Fed's policy announcement and America's first quarter GDP growth update not drowned out the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... having slowed sharply during the winter in part because of adverse weather conditions". As expected, it continued its gradual taper of its bond-buying stimulus program, while maintaining ultra-low interest rates. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... very much expected the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) decision last night, there was nothing new. It's measured taper as she goes: "... the Committee decided to make a further measured reduction in the pace of its asset purchases" because "Information ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... more wiggle room to shift policy, one way or the other. "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle yeah"! The bottomline: Fed taper would proceed as planned... unless incoming data become extraordinarily good or extraordinarily bad. So far they're relatively ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014