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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... markets caught in two minds between the prospect of the imminent prospect of tapering, and the benefits of an economic recovery," Michael Hewson, Senior Market Analyst at CMC Markets UK, said. The euro sank to $US1.2806 ($A1.41) - which was the lowest ...

Ready for another take off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... May. Through this all, I've always maintained that the Fed is no fool to reduce stimulus prematurely while the economic recovery is not yet assured. Now the markets appear to have finally cottoned on. Yeah, yeah...after the fact you say. I beg your pardon ...

The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... markets over these past two days, if they persist, only pushes the timing a little longer. It is the fledging economic recovery that would be unwound instead of policy accommodation if the financial market sell-off currently showing at theatres around ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... and Bank of England kept interest rates on hold and held off providing more monetary stimulus to the fragile economic recovery, dealers say. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies shed 1.30 per cent to finish at 6,336.11 points on Thursday, Frankfurt's ...

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... could lead interest rates to rise temporarily but would also carry a substantial risk of slowing or ending the economic recovery and causing inflation to fall further." No Fedspeak here too. It only became Fedspeak when Bernanke spoke and replied to ...

Variety of strategies needed for all-weather outperformance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... the Philippines, Vietnam and Jakarta. Morphic is also holding a basket of US housebuilders as a play on the economic recovery. There is also a stringent focus on risk management and capacity issues. In building the business, Lowenstein says he aims to ...

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... of the FOMC voters' promise to keep monetary policy highly accommodative for a "considerable time after...the economic recovery strengthens". Just as I've written in a previous column, while there are some signs that the US economy is regaining strength ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... Australian bond futures prices are higher as investors continue to buy safe-haven assets amid concerns about the US economic recovery. US economic figures, released overnight, show a sharp jump in weekly jobless claims while the number of housing construction ...

Will stocks follow Fed exit to the exits?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... monetary policy will remain appropriate for a considerable time after the asset purchase program ends and the economic recovery strengthens". Hope you got that. Monetary policy will remain "highly accommodative" for a considerable time "after" (repeat ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... Friday in New York. HONG KONG - Asian markets rose after a strong US jobs report revived optimism over the US economic recovery and drove Wall Street to record highs. Hong Kong shares rose 0.99 per cent, or 225.13 points, to close at 22,915.09 while ...