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Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... and nowhere to go. Yup! Wall Street went nowhere alright. A day before last night's Federal Open Market Committee Meeting (FOMC), Wall Street was all prepped, seemingly ready to take it all, whatever the Fed decides - or more, importantly, whatever it ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... may be sitting on the sidelines ahead of commentary from US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday night. "The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) tonight release their commentary in terms of monetary policy. There may be a few people waiting ...

Recession over, now for the recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... the recession that began in December 2007." What now? I guess the members of the US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) will be asking themselves the same question when they sit and deliberate on monetary policy tonight. What they decide to ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... from 2.4 per cent nor Intel's revenue warning got the market down the day Big Ben declared that he's got our backs. "... the FOMC will do all that it can to ensure continuation of the economic recovery... the Committee is prepared to provide additional ...

Glum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... wants and still be unable to soothe market nerves especially if the financial press does the same it did with the 10 August FOMC statement - they picked one phrase and milked it to high heavens to feed the fear. Back then, "the pace of recovery in output ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... market following negative leads from offshore overnight, with investors concerned on bleak signs for the US economy. "The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) announcements on Monday night were quite disturbing for the market," Mr McCarthy said. "Although ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... up based on the Fed's action - whatever it may be. And why shouldn't they be? QE2 came at a cost. In its June meeting the FOMC statement noted that "the economic recovery is proceeding and the labor market is improving gradually." Last night, the statement ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... whoopee! Wall Street rose last night salivating over expectations that tonight's meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) would conclude with a kinder surprise - a.k.a. quantitative easing. Yes Virginia, Wall Street's hoping and wishing and ...

Wall Street takes a dive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... sector." Cover your ears and sing lalala so you don't hear Benny saying, "My colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and I expect continued moderate growth, a gradual decline in the unemployment rate, and subdued inflation over the next ...

Pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... to 1.0-1.1 per cent from 1.2-1.5 percent last April. I'll leave the Fed to explain the meaning of these revisions. In the FOMC minutes, the Fed stated that, "The economic outlook had softened somewhat and a number of members saw the risks to the outlook ...