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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... are there," Mr Bishop said. "It's not tangible, but you can smell them, and the market is reacting to that. "Quantitative easing will keep the American dollar low-ish, and that is very good for commodities and that is very good for Australia." The heavyweight ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... surged 1.8 per cent to a two-week high on positive economic data from the US and China and the prospect of quantitative easing in Europe. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 89.6 points, or 1.95 per cent, at 4,676.2, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

A QEasy road ahead for investors

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
The US Federal Reserve's recent decision to employ a second round Quantitative Easing could be the catalyst for another downturn in markets, according to a leading strategist. Matthew Sherwood, Perpetual's head of investment markets research, told Financial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... be fading, given the rise in metals prices and the decline in the price of oil overnight, he said. "QE II (quantitative easing round two) is now fully priced in and a tighter interest rate and regulatory environment in China is now priced in," he said. ...

Slim pickings in intl equities: van Eyk

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... international equities are so cheap is due to the issues facing it including the wide equity risk premium, quantitative easing having long-term ramifications and the fact that Australia has some of the most expensive markets in the world, such as consumer ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... 1.19 per cent, at $88.24. Fortescue Metals was up seven cents at $6.89. Mr Taylor said the second round of quantitative easing announced by the US Federal Reserve last week had been positive for equities and negative for the US dollar. "That is positive ...

Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... the increasing number of countries voicing their protests against the Fed's US$75 billion a month worth of quantitative easing. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority said that the Fed's action will "definitely add pressure to the asset markets in emerging-market ...

Goldilocks QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... the program and its ultimate size. Goldilocks QE2. The US Federal Reserve wants to get the quantum of its quantitative easing 2 just right. Too small and financial markets throw a tantrum, walk away and dump risk assets from their investment portfolios. ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... speculation over the third quarter reporting season and lingering "will they, won't they?" question over a second quantitative easing by the Fed, the share market may have as well joined in on the holidays. At least, there was some action there unlike ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... Europe, Japan, et al for their respective predicaments. Speculation that the US would unleash another bomb (quantitative easing 2) in the currency markets gathered pace after the ADP/Macroeconomic Advisors reported that private payrolls fell by 39,000 ...