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Push... pussshh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012

QE3, OMT, APP equals D-U-D?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012

AFA conference boasts biggest turnout in 20 years

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... and the needs of consumers. During the event there will also be six concurrent breakout streams that support the main programme. In addition, the four AFA Annual awards - Rising Star, Excellence in Education, Female Excellence in Advice - will be disbursed ...

Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... Federal Reserve set QE3 in motion. Even those we didn't expect to do did. The Bank of Japan announced APP (asset purchase programme) also last month and the Reserve Bank of Australia just lopped another 25 basis points off interest rates yesterday - ...

Star alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
The stars appear to be aligning for those calling on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to give official interest rates another chop when they meet to deliberate on monetary policy next week. Let's start with the minutes of the 4 September meeting. ...

QE3 will be different

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
The Federal Reserve's new easing programme, know as QE3, could be different from the first two rounds due to a stronger global economy and improvements within the US housing market, Fidelity said. According to Core Logic the level of negative equity ...

Welcome to the QE Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... Thursday. HONG KONG - Asian markets surged after the US Federal Reserve said it would unleash a huge open-ended bond-buying programme aimed at jumpstarting growth and boosting jobs in the world's largest economy. Tokyo shares rose 1.83 per cent, or 164.24 ...

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... sans QE. But back to the point. As we discussed yesterday, if Big Ben ever needed reasons to launch another stimulus programme, he's got them now - employment growth is decelerating, the ISM manufacturing index is trending lower, and just last night ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... Mario Draghi put a stop to months of speculation, hearsays and guesswork. Mario announced an open-ended bond buying programme which, henceforth, shall be known as "Outright Monetary Transactions" (OMT). Gauging from the markets' reaction - the S&P 500 ...