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Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... for the market. "It was also noted that were the outlook to deteriorate, the pace of purchases could be increased." (Fed Minutes) And it's become an even greater win-win proposition with the BOJ now also expanding its balance sheet to infinity. Just ...

Fed sorted easy, now for the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... thought they should be thinking the Fed's thinking. They even dissected minute alterations in single lines of the Fed minutes from "a few" to "several" to "many" participants engaged for or against the possible move. They were so focused on semantics ...

Puke on the punchbowl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
... Fed's January meeting. It would be a herculean effort to peruse through all 16 pages containing 10,894 words of the Fed minutes and trade at the same time. So what do they do, they relied instead on a quick fix - what media commentators and the bloggerati ...

Fed's about to go... or not?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... excitement. Just have a look at Reuters' headlines: S&P recovers from losses, dollar falls after Fed Oil rises on Fed minutes, U.S. inventory drop Gold jumps above $1,650; Fed minutes feed stimulus hopes Copper climbs to one-month high after Fed minutes ...

No QE, not bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
... QE the third is about to sail. How could you do this to us BFF? It's all over the headlines: "U.S. Stocks Fall as Fed Minutes Damp Stimulus Expectation" (Bloomberg); "Wall St slides as Fed dashes stimulus hopes" (AFR); "Wall Street Slumps as QE3 Hopes ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... weaker than investors were expecting. The company also lowered its full-year earnings forecast. The release of the Fed minutes sent bond prices lower because some of the central bank's members said it might need to start easing interest rates higher ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2005
... 14,742.58. HONG KONG - Stocks rose slightly, with property stocks extending gains made in the previous session after a Fed minutes report and ahead of the trading debut of the Link REIT initial public offering. The Hang Seng Index ended up 22.04 points ...
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