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Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... September meeting sparked speculation that the US central bank would ease monetary policy further - through quantitative easing - very soon. It would release more US dollars into the economy by buying more US Treasuries. And what do you get when a commodity ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... Anthony Anderson, said it had been a good morning's trade on thin volumes. "The United States talked about quantitative easing and the banks are performing well," Mr Anderson said. "The insurance sector, apart from QBE, is really positive too," Mr Anderson ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... keeping interest rates at low levels for as long as is needed. And as for the much-awaited news on QE II (quantitative easing 2), the Fed simply mentioned that, "The Committee also will maintain its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from ...

Recession over, now for the recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... guess. But gold's going gaga in the past few days suggests that financial markets expect the FOMC to top up its quantitative easing measure very soon, if not from tomorrow. Last month, the Fed decided to reinvest the principal payments from its holdings ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... to worry about. Found one! Investors have turned to speculating whether or not the Fed would announce more quantitative easing measures. In deciding to ease its quants, certainly the Fed's main objective is to provide more oomph to the American economy ...

A "race to the bottom" in currencies

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... exchange dealer at CMC markets. And with the US Federal Reserve pondering the merits of a second round of quantitative easing the prospects for currency markets to become embroiled in a race to the bottom are real. "Clearly most central banks are expressing ...

Rewind and replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
... This is because the US Federal Reserve would be quick to come to the rescue and implement another round of quantitative easing should another large fall on Wall Street eventuates or the economy shows more signs of weakness, or both. The additional liquidity ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... that just last week the Bank of Japan conducted an emergency meeting to try to stem the yen's rise. Their quantitative easing has just only begun to have its desired effect on the currency when this Europe thing resurfaced. So now, everybody's back buying ...

US needs double the lifeline

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... a US-based fund manager. Tom Callan, head of BlackRock's $12 billion global opportunities team, said that quantitative easing should be coupled with fiscal stimulus for the US to avoid the mistakes of Japan in the early 2000s. Callan conceded that fiscal ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... tonight's meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) would conclude with a kinder surprise - a.k.a. quantitative easing. Yes Virginia, Wall Street's hoping and wishing and praying that the Fed would announce some sort of stimulus to rev up growth ...