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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... said. Mr Chatterton said traders were also waiting to see the outcome of this week's meeting of the Fed's Federal Open Markets Committee. Many analysts expect the FOMC to announce on Thursday morning (Australian time) that it will start to wind back ...

ANZ reshuffles wealth division, Barrett to depart

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... Barrett has decided to leave ANZ, effective September 16. Neil Younger has been appointed general manager of Advice and Open Markets Channel. Younger joined ANZ in December 2011 as head of Practice Based Financial Planning and he has held senior executive ...

Fed sorted easy, now for the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... and his name is James: James Bullard, president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve and voting member of the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC). In an interview with CNBC, he made it clear that, "Fed policy is very easy and it's going to stay easy for ...

HFT and dark pools keep ASIC on its toes

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... pools stipulating they can only be used if they offer a price edge and not purely to keep volume and pricing from open markets, HFT seems to be on the rise without the regulator truly understanding what it is. High frequency trades, completed in milliseconds ...

Market Report- Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher, after Wall Street and the major Europen markets finished up overnight. At 0847 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 32 points at 4,281. In economic news on Tuesday ...

No minute message in FOMC minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... that's currently doing the rounds of financial markets. And with the release of the minutes of its 26-27 April Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting, dispel the markets' worries it did. Wall Street knows not to fight the Fed. US equities jumped ...

Banks to raise capital reserves

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... contribute to long-term stability and growth. Other agreements include incentives for banks to trade exotic derivates on open markets. Nout Wellink, chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and President of the Netherlands Bank, said that ...

Gold's dimming lustre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... are expected to rise soon, starting when the Fed begins to unwind its quantitative easing. At its January Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting, the Fed confirmed that it would be closing some of its emergency lending programs and its dollar ...

Stuck at zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... guide the US economy out of stormy waters. There we have it Virginia, the much-awaited, much speculated US Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting produced nada. By a unanimous decision, its members voted to keep the fed funds rate near zero. And ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... zero for an extended period (again just in case). While talking heads and financial headlines have spun the Federal Open Markets Committee's (FOMC) statement as, "the recession's end is nigh," I still maintain that we reached "nigh" two months ago in ...