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China's rebalancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
Uh-oh, looks like it's still "not safe... very dangerous, be careful". Just when the Fed's started to deploy some official to unwind the fear that Bernanke's "tapering soon" rhetoric created, along comes China. New York Fed president Bill Dudley remarked ...

Is it safe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... how do you know if it's time to buy, to sell or to hold when you still couldn't make up your mind whether the Fed would taper very soon or later or even expand - yes that's right, expand - its bond purchases when the Fed itself doesn't know? I hope the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... throughout the day. Markets have been on edge since Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday that the Fed planned to taper its bond-buying program later this year. LONDON - European stock markets briefly rebounded as investors fished for ...

The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
"...And then I go and spoil it all by sayin' something stupid like 'we'll taper soon'." Sorry to spoil your immortal classic Frank (Sinatra) but "I love you" just doesn't apply to Ben Bernanke right now. Not with the trashing the equity markets, the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... lower following sharp falls on Wall Street after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank expects to taper its bond-buying stimulus measure later this year. At 0810 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was ...

End of QE sounds death knell for 'zombie' stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
The tapering of quantitative easing (QE) will burst the bubble in high-yielding 'zombie' stocks, according to UK-based Duncan Lawrie Private Bank's James Humphreys. Stimulus measures by central banks in Europe, the US and Japan have propped up global ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... tantrum over the past few weeks, Wall Street has sobered up and have come to accept its fate and realising that Ben would only taper if the economy could withstand it and/or that taking a few greens off its monthly purchases remains in the realms of ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... policy statement and news conference with chairman Ben Bernanke. Investors in recent weeks have speculated the Fed would soon taper its $US85 billion ($A89.44 billion)-a-month bond-buying program. NEW YORK - US stocks rose decisively as investors bet ...

Ben's all that matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... building up to a crescendo? The FOMC starts their two-day policy meeting tonight and then finally...we might get closure on the taper thing. We could speculate about the indications from recent economic data, or the G8 seeing that the worst is over for ...

Still in Goldilocks land

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... would the Fed trim its US$85 billion monthly contribution to the market's "fun" allowance; and, when exactly would the Fed taper/unwind/scale back/reduce policy stimulus. On Wednesday, all will be revealed. I hope, wish and pray that, this time, uncle ...