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Prayin' for a taperin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
The Australian market has opened lower following a run of gains, an absence of more positive drivers and flat offshore leads overnight. The ASX is up 5.81 per cent in the last 14 days since the recent US debt ceiling agreement, and has been trading ...

Savings trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... months consecutive of falls? That means home sales started in falling in June. Exactamondo! That's the month after the Fed taper speculations started on 22 May - and interest rates (along with mortgage rates) started rising. That's why it's good data. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
The Australian market looks set to open flat as investors wait for the outcome of the Federal Reserve's meeting that will decide whether the central will start tapering its stimulus measures. At 0812 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures ...

Taper trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... participation rate to 63.2% -- the lowest since 1978. So quando, quando, quando? Financial markets are now bracing for a March taper (give or take a month or two), the same way they did the Sep-taper. But like the Sep-taper, the Fed could again announce ...

US stimulus having no direct impact

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... investors on the wrong side of the trade - a sign that the Fed had lost its way. Poole predicts that the great unwind, or 'the taper caper', is still some way off with labor market figures disappointing, business fixed investment lagging behind. He added ...

Higher inflation triggered by central bank decisions

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
The US Federal Reserve's decision to put tapering on hold has heightened the risk of developed world economies entering a period of higher inflation, according to Ardea Investment Management principal Tamar Hamlyn. The fixed-income specialist said that ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
The Australian share market has opened higher with investors confident the US central bank will continue its economic stimulus program following weaker-than-expected jobs figures. The Australian bourse on Wednesday followed the lead of US markets, which ...

QE infinity anybody?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... Bernanke testified before Congress and was asked if the Fed is "going to tighten by Labor Day?" The one that sparked the Fed taper speculation business that was then extrapolated to a lifting in the fed funds rate eventually. He's answer, the Fed might... ...

Spend, spend, spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... minerals resource rent tax and we get good motivation to shop for local miners. However, all these may be short-lived. Once Fed taper blinks back into investors' radars, bank shares would come under pressure once again like they did heading into September. ...