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US Fed hints at QE3

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
Hints of a third round of quantitative easing from the US Federal Reserve emerged from the minutes of a Federal Open Market Committee meeting released overnight. The FOMC minutes from its June 21-22 meeting revealed that policy makers disagree on whether ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... forecast of 3.1 to 3.3 per cent. This week, markets will face the conclusion of the Fed's second round of quantitative easing, dubbed QE2, which has seen the Fed pump $US600 billion ($A571.32 billion) into the US economy since November to aid the flagging ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... Dr Bernanke had lowered the growth outlook and raised the unemployment forecast without hinting at any more quantitative easing, IG Markets analyst Cameron Peacock said. "The US markets were higher heading into his press conference, but they ended up ...

US to avoid default, EM stocks to rise: Janus

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... of the interest rate differential with US rates kept artificially low, than the money-printing involved in quantitative easing since much of that stayed locked up on bank balance sheets. Eisinger said he expected commodity prices to top out, helping ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... night and any further news from the board of the US Federal Reserve with regards to QE2 (its second round of quantitative easing). "Certainly, a slightly weaker oil price is not helping the scenario for energy stocks, but on the other hand we saw new ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... prices, in particular the spike in the prices of food and oil. This will prompt calls for central banks to end quantitative easing and/or tighten monetary policy. Chinese authorities have already tighten and will be tightening some more to prevent their ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... rebuilding. Not so for its counterparts. Despite growing momentum in the US economy, the Fed's still maintaining its quantitative easing program. Juts last night, Bloomberg reported that Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans believes ...

Oil central bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... Arabia is what The Economist calls " the central bank of the oil market." Like the Fed it could engage in "quantitative easing" but not when the country itself plunges into turmoil. Saudi Arabia could be the tipping point - it now embodies both the hope ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... erecting barriers to portfolio capital inflows. This is in direct contrast to the very low interest rates and quantitative easing programs currently engaged in by developed nations' central banks. The recent rise of food and energy prices - commodities ...

Value a plus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... 2010 renewed risk appetites and propelled international equities to positive closings. That may be, but the quantitative easing policies implemented by the Fed, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England have thus far failed to generate meaningful improvements ...