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Wen's visible hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... unlike the Fed that's still "coaxing" markets with its zero percent interest rates "through to late 2014" and "Operation Twist" carrots. The same goes for the ECB and the European Union and the BOE, et. al. But don't wipe that smile off your faces yet. ...

Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... the twist. The Fed's decision yesterday indicates that it's still not prepared to withdraw stimulus by letting Operation Twist expire as scheduled at the end of this month - the economy is not strong enough and has even downshifted. At the same time ...

Fed twists again like it did last summer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... 90 points, then oscillated between plus and minus before closing a mere 0.1% lower. The Fed decided to extend Operation Twist's -- selling shorter-term bonds and uses the proceeds to buy longer-term Treasuries -- expiry from the end of this month to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... stocks closed mostly lower on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve extended its bond-swapping program, known as Operation Twist, for six months to help boost the flagging economy. The program, scheduled to expire at the end of June, was extended through ...

Uncle Ben to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... certainty in the US Federal Reserve announcing some sort of policy response. Speculations are that they'll extend Operation Twist (which expires at the end of this month), or implement Operation Twist with a twist - that is buying mortgages instead of ...

Pop goes the QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... announced the day before that QE is on its way. Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart said that and extension of Operation Twist (it ends at the end of this month) is an "option on the table". San Francisco Fed president John Williams declared that if ...

All juiced up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... further monetary actions to support the recovery will certainly need to be considered" and that an extension of Operation Twist is an "option on the table". Hip, hip. But like bad news, don't good ones also come in threes? You must be thinking China ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... portfolio into long-term US bonds in August 2010 only after the Dow has fallen by 13.6% from the April top to July. Operation Twist was announced in September 2011 after the Dow has fallen by 16.2% in the same month. Both times Wall Street resumed its ...

Scare me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... fear. It jumped to 45.5 in October last year. That was scary. That was fear. That's also when the Fed announced Operation Twist.

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... Ben. He's still watching and stimulating, he's reinvesting the proceeds of his asset purchases, he still has "Operation Twist" in place, and he's not raising on interest rates "at least through late 2014". Easy money policy still not enough to convince ...

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