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It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... "Never mind raising interest rates - Ray Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge fund, is predicting that the Federal Reserve will launch a fresh round of quantitative easing rather than tightening at its coming policy meeting in September." Sounds ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... 2011 - when fear was elevated - that prompted coordinated action by six of the world's biggest central banks - US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank. The only problem I have is ...

Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... US. Analysis of unemployment data, as well as wage and price inflation figures leads Reynolds to conclude that a Federal Reserve interest rate rise is most likely to come in December, with an outside chance they may start the tightening cycle in September. ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... expensive. As per Reuters, "With US interest rates near zero for nearly a decade, debt has been cheap. But with the Federal Reserve widely expected to hike rates later this year, merger and acquisition activity has increased. July was the seventh-strongest ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... 0.2 per cent contraction. LONDON - European stock markets rose on company updates and as investors assess the Federal Reserve's outlook for the economy. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index gained 0.57 per cent to finish at 6,668.87 points. In the eurozone ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... after another positive session on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.7 per cent after the US Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate at near-zero per cent and gave no fresh clues on the timing of a long-awaited rate hike. At ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... Chinese equities in more than eight years. Markets meanwhile awaited this week's monetary policy meeting of the US Federal Reserve for a handle on its plans for interest rates. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of major companies slid 1.13 per cent on ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... behemoths, Wall Street's outperformance is because of "unprecedented stimulus from the country's central bank, the US Federal Reserve" and - not beating their own drums - "...the glaring absence of a technology sector specifically". "The three biggest ...

Higher US rates will test investors' nerves: QIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... identified as signs that the term premium will increase are the "normalisation" of monetary policy following the US Federal Reserve tapering of its quantitative easing programs. Other drivers are investors' demand for higher compensation to counter illiquidity ...

A$ down but would it stay down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... story, i.e., it depends on whether or not the Fed lifts and when it lifts. Will it? Can it? Not if you ask the Federal Reserve of Bank of New York. It published a research piece last week titled, "The Effect of the Strong Dollar on U.S. Growth" You can ...