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FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
The US Federal Reserve's decision to postpone the rate rise is keeping the world on hold. With volatility set to increase ahead of the rate hike, Laura Millan looks at the global investment opportunities. Just when everyone thought it would happen ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... and are likely to put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term." These were the words in the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy statement of September used to justify the US central bank's decision not to lift interest rates last month ...

Nikko downgrades equities stance

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... earnings and share prices in the United States. The committee has also pushed back its forecasted timing of the US Federal Reserve's credit tightening to October from September. The manager was more positive in its assessment of the Australian equity ...

CIO says low bond market rates to continue

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... than market participants thought at the beginning of 2015. Leech said the normalising of interest rates by the US Federal Reserve will proceed but it is going to be a long and slow process. "The Fed is trying to change the communication focus from the ...

Fed will lift later this year if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
Too bad for Wall Street, the closing bell has already rung even before US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen uttered her first word on "Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy" at the At the Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture, University of Massachusetts ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... to treat us - or prolong our agony, depending on which side of the fence one sits - to more of the same. The US Federal Reserve decided to do nothing and leave interest rates where they were since 16 December 2008, at 0-0.25%. It's you, not me. Not America ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... 2011 - when fear was elevated - that prompted coordinated action by six of the world's biggest central banks - US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank. The only problem I have is ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... after another positive session on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.7 per cent after the US Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate at near-zero per cent and gave no fresh clues on the timing of a long-awaited rate hike. At ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... Chinese equities in more than eight years. Markets meanwhile awaited this week's monetary policy meeting of the US Federal Reserve for a handle on its plans for interest rates. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of major companies slid 1.13 per cent on ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... behemoths, Wall Street's outperformance is because of "unprecedented stimulus from the country's central bank, the US Federal Reserve" and - not beating their own drums - "...the glaring absence of a technology sector specifically". "The three biggest ...