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Market higher but eyes are on US Fed

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... the next couple of months. "The market is very tentative, volumes are pretty light with all this positioning ahead of the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) tonight," IG market strategist Evan Lucas told AAP. "We're up 0.4 per cent, which is following ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... on his own predictions and more than half of those losses are reversed. The price action just reinforces how important the FOMC Wednesday will be." Yup. Two days ago (17 June), Financial Times published an article by Robin Harding entitled "Fed likely ...

Ben's all that matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel the suspense building up to a crescendo? The FOMC starts their two-day policy meeting tonight and then finally...we might get closure on the taper thing. We could speculate about the indications ...

Still in Goldilocks land

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... stimulation. All eyes and ears - and fingers on the button - will be on the Fed when its US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets for a two-day policy deliberation on the 18th and 19th for clues on: Whether or not the Fed judges the economy and ...

It'll be on 18 September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... I digress. Labor Day in America is celebrated on the 1st Monday of September. This year it falls on 2 September. But the FOMC doesn't meet until the 17th and 18th of that month. Ergo, this whole taper on, taper off speculation business shall end when ...

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... wisest of interpreters" (Wealth Building Strategies in Energy, Metals and Other Markets). The minutes of the 30April- 1 May FOMC meeting was clear enough. "Most observed that the outlook for the labor market had shown progress since the program was started ...

Yuan to float free, in our dreams

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... the Fed). I don't know how much weight to give to their expositions considering that they're both not voting members of the FOMC this year. Too, their prescription goes against the grain of the FOMC voters' promise to keep monetary policy highly accommodative ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... the bigger the economy's discontent, the more aggressive it would be. Don't' believe me? Let's have a look at last night's FOMC statement: "The Committee will closely monitor incoming information on economic and financial developments in coming months. ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... on the equity markets. Wall Street's running up and setting new record highs along the way. The release of the Fed's March FOMC meeting was last night's big news. It told a tale of the Fed explicitly discussing an exit strategy or perhaps "slow the pace ...