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Investor confidence index down: State Street

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... co-developed the index with State Street Associate's Paul O'Connell. Given the United States Federal Reserve's latest quantitative easing program, Froot regarded this third consecutive decline in North American investor confidence as surprising. "It ...

Star alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... Unintentional or otherwise, the Fed, the ECB and the BOJs - and the expected to be handed down soon BOE - quantitative easing programmes will debase their respective currencies and put further upward pressure on the Australian dollar. This, and of course ...

Five step process for QE3

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
A five step process can help investors ride the US Federal Reserve's latest round of open-ended quantitative easing, said a senior Fidelity Investment head. Even if you are skeptical about the long-term impact of QE3, "it would be a bold call in the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... market on Friday finished at a four-and-a-half-month high after the Fed announced that under a third round of quantitative easing (QE3), it will buy $US40 billion of mortgage-backed securities a month. At the close of trade on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... securities a month, to push down long-term interest rates and stimulate growth After trading flat before the Fed's quantitative easing (QE3) announcement, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 206.51 points, or 1.55 per cent, higher at 13,539.86. Locally ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... Federal Open Market Committee's two-day meeting, finishing Thursday (US time), will result in fresh measures, or quantitative easing, to stimulate the sluggish US economy. In local economic news on Thursday, the Reserve Bank of Australia is due to release ...

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... to me being read on The Street, but to CNBC's question as to whether "a major" program of buying assets, or quantitative easing, is warranted. So there! QE's come and gone! Then again, Mr. Bullard's not a voting member of the FOMC - he's not one of the ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... states that the more equity markets rise - and European bond yields fall - on expectations of central bank quantitative easing announcement/action, the greater the likelihood that there won't be any QE. Why else do you think, the Fed and the ECB didn't ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... minutes by the US Federal Reserve overnight disappointed traders hoping for an indication that another round of quantitative easing was on the way. European markets were fixed amid the announcement of austerity measures in Spain. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

US equities a gateway to emerging markets

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... growing by 3%. However, The United States Federal Reserve recently opted not to embark on another round of quantitative easing - dubbed QE3 - which would have seen it engage in an aggressive bond-buying spree, driving up the value of American equities. ...