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Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... Fed completed its QE taper back in October last year. There was plenty of information in the transcript of US Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen's 1,926 word testimony. So very, very much, that anybody and everybody could pick and choose what they ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
... surged to a more than seven-year high as the yen retreated against the dollar thanks to investors betting on the US Federal Reserve hiking interest rates soon. The Nikkei in Tokyo, which was closed Wednesday for a public holiday, rallied 1.85 per cent ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... 43.50 (0.93 per cent) to 4,637.99. Stocks fell decisively in the last hour of trade, as markets weighed the US Federal Reserve's policy statement, in which it described US economic growth as "solid" but pledged a "patient" approach to raising interest ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
... and disappointing US growth stats early in the New Year (polar vortex). Overlayed against all these is the US Federal Reserve's continued withdrawal of policy stimulation. The big dump of biotechs and social media stocks; Putin and Crimea and Ukraine ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... overnight. Bad news, they say, come in threes. Here's the third for a trifecta. Speculations are building that the US Federal Reserve could drop its "considerable time" phrase when the FOMC meets next week (16-17 December) on the back of the strengthening ...

Cash rate more likely to fall than rise: PIMCO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... definitely the second most likely case, with rate hikes being nowhere on the agenda." Mead said he expects the US Federal Reserve, meanwhile, to begin lifting rates around July or August next year, at the rate of around 25 basis points every couple of ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... announced the operational details of asset-backed securities and covered bond purchase programmes (2 October); the US Federal Reserve announced the completion of QE3 (29 October); and, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) expanded its quantitative and qualitative ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... asset-buying scheme, bringing it to Y80 trillion annually in an unexpected shift aimed at reviving growth just as the US Federal Reserve winds down its own stimulus spree. LONDON - European stocks surged as the Bank of Japan's surprise stimulus sent ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... atmospherics." Spooner said the local market appeared to be undeterred by a fall in US markets prompted by the US Federal Reserve's decision to end its economic stimulus program. Spooner said the main impact of the Fed's decision was on bond and currency ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... jumped by 0.8% versus the euro and by 0.7% against the yen. Hardly surprising given the relativities of the US Federal Reserve no longer printing fresh mints at the same time that the European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to roll out its money printing ...