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Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas everybody, merry Christmas! The Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) played jolly old saint Nicolas, decking the financial market halls with boughs of holly (fa la la...) on the 21st of September. Santa Kuroda ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... over central bank policies proved founded. It doesn't matter whether it's by chance or by design but both the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan will announce their monetary policy decision on 21 September. Nothing wrong with that... except that ...

December maybe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
... hike on, rate hike off. Financial markets raised their bets for a September fed funds rate lift soon after US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's two-day outing at Jackson Hole (25-26 August). Her words, "Indeed, in light of the continued solid performance ...

K2 hurt by Brexit call

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... Australian dollar versus the GBP of 13% in June also had an impact on K2's performance. Neal said K2 expected the US Federal Reserve to lift its official cash rate in December 2015, however it did not expect the People's Bank of China to then devalue ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... expected to allow production to jump by over 900,000 barrels per day by the end of the year 2016. Meanwhile the US Federal Reserve and other agencies are citing increasing risks to banks that have loaned money to oil and gas producers as oil prices have ...

Brexit - the Australian connection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... respective economies so much so that, in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, financial markets do not expect the US Federal Reserve to lift interest rates until early 2018. MarketWatch even reports that "...a minority of fed-funds futures traders are now ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... For sure, the top honchos of top global institutions wouldn't be issuing warnings just for eyeballs. There's US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen: "One development that could shift investor sentiment is the upcoming referendum in the United Kingdom. ...

Global bond funds underinvested in EMD

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... forever, especially when the debt may not be increasing economic productivity. "From a US perspective, the US Federal Reserve is in a quandary. If it raises interest rates, it risks global leverage which will come back to hit the US economy, forcing ...

Minutes to disaster

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... on again. Yes Virginia, not unless you've spent all of last week touring Mars would you not notice that the US Federal Reserve had been busily preparing planet earth for another lift... as soon as next month and by more before 2016 becomes 2017. How ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... promises of more. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) big bazookas proved no match for US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's words, "I consider it appropriate for the Committee to proceed cautiously in adjusting policy". The ...