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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower following slides on international markets after a US Federal Reserve official said there could be a small cut in its stimulus program next week. At 0826 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... All Ordinaries index shed 37.6 points, or 0.73 per cent, to 5,148.4. NEW YORK - US stocks have edged higher as a Federal Reserve official suggests that the central bank could take a small step next week to reel in its stimulus program. At the closing ...

CB onslaught

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2013
... plus Chairman Ben Bernanke, doing the rounds of the speaking circuit every single day of this week. New York Federal Reserve Bank President William Dudley and St Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard get to speak twice. Can be dull and boring ...

US stimulus having no direct impact

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... presentation at the CFA Institute Investment Conference in Melbourne yesterday the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis said that the expansionary effect that can be seen in the market is coming from investors' expectations rather ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
Australian shares are weaker after a US Federal Reserve official said tapering of economic stimulus could begin in October. Resources and energy stocks were the worst performers on the market. St Louis Fed president James Bullard's comments weighed ...

Taper to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013

Sinking emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... Taper is on according to Fed mouthpiece John Hilsenrath. John wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week that, "Federal Reserve officials are likely to signal at their June policy meeting that they're on track to begin pulling back their $85-billion-a-month ...

The QE question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... "in light of a forecast of the future performance of the economy." And "there is scope for further action by the Federal Reserve to ease financial conditions and strengthen the recovery." To QE not. The stock markets have not collapsed. Remember our ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... just over a couple of billions and then grew, and grew, and grew. Just two days ago, I wrote about St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller interview with Reuters and from his statement concluded that: "The Fed meets eight ...

QE2 still the main game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... grand daddy of them all. QE2. Yes, print more of the green stuff. In an interview with Reuters, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller said that, "There's a lot of credibility to it that if we were going to (move) the ...