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The "ber" months are coming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... quarter, above the 1.1 per cent pace expected by analysts. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) concluded a two-day meeting saying economic growth was at a "modest" pace and pledging to maintain its aggressive bond-buying ...

Data diarrhoea

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013

Post-Bernanke uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... Yes, now you get it. Markets hate uncertainty. Note that the Fed's policy making body, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), is comprised of 12 voting members and policy decisions and direction is arrived at through consensus. No Virginia, don't ...

Nothing below seven percent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... (which gets me thinking, why couldn't anything come out of the right field?), this would go on and on until the Fed's next FOMC meeting in August...and most definitely, in September. But try as the headlines might, there's nothing negative that they ...

Peace, be still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... I said, but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant"? For putting the minutes of the 18-19 June FOMC minutes and the gospel according to Ben together, their message didn't really depart so much from Ben Bernanke's statement ...

Adjusting for adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
After all the build up, the anticipation and the suspense, Wall Street had only a minute reaction to the FOMC minutes. The Dow was down a little and the S&P 500 up a bit for there was hardly anything new to inspire that animal spirit in you, I and Irene ...

Lotsa data but no game change (yet)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... implement its first reduction in stimulus? For answers we'll have to wait for later this week to get a glimpse of what the FOMC thinks. For Sino-centric Australia, we'll have to wait for that barrage of China stats coming our way this week too. Only ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... explicit that their respective monetary policies would remain stimulative for a while longer. The minutes of the 18-19 June FOMC meeting could produce another bout of financial market volatility when it's released later this week (10 July) - depending ...

The Big Benny sings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... time for Big Benny to sing? The song remains the same to me. The same tune Ben Bernanke sang on the 22nd of May. The June FOMC statement was practically a rehash of the one released after the May meeting...except for very few very minor tweaks. See for ...