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Market Wrap- Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... "We've got a big week of economic data coming out. "We've got the interest rates decision here (in Australia) tomorrow, the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting and the non-farm payrolls report (in the US) later in the week. "With a five per ...

Twisting the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... -- after Big Ben gave them what they wanted. If this isn't a twisted response, I don't know what is. Following its 2-day FOMC deliberations the Fed announced that, "To support a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time ...

Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... much-speculated "Operation Twist" - to lower the cost of capital by putting a ceiling on 10-year Treasuries -- when it holds its FOMC meeting this week. Let's wait and see. Still, chances are that any goodwill this brings would be temporary unless Europe ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... conviction in the market at the moment. Everyone is just sitting on the sidelines waiting for what will happen next week at the FOMC meeting," she said. "Everyone's just marking time until more action is seen through what will happen in the Greek debt ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... small Ben one better. B-I-N-G-O! By just changing a single phrase in the policy statement, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) changed the financial markets' mood from one of desperation to 'there's still hope.' That feeling of hope was underlined ...

S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... supplying lotsa lotsa greenbacks. Yes I know, I know. Everybody's still debating whether the Fed's quantitative easing worked. FOMC voting member Charles Plosser's remarks about debt ceiling could also apply to QE3. "It could be very bad. At some level ...

Deal or no deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... I've said this many times before - they will deal. Because as Big Benny says not dealing would have "catastrophic" effects. FOMC voting member Charles Plosser sums it up best, "It could be very bad. At some level we don't really know what the consequences ...

Knights in shining armour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/12074574/ ) where I noted that the wording of the minutes of the Fed's May FOMC meeting, "The Committee will monitor the economic outlook and financial developments and will act as needed to best foster maximum ...

US Fed hints at QE3

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... easing from the US Federal Reserve emerged from the minutes of a Federal Open Market Committee meeting released overnight. The FOMC minutes from its June 21-22 meeting revealed that policy makers disagree on whether additional stimulus is needed. Some ...

The sound of QE3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... financial markets didn't like what they heard, for they didn't listen. It was another down day on The Street after the Fed's post-FOMC meeting statement and Big Benny's press conference confirmed that the "economic recovery is continuing at a moderate ...