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It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... 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 familiarly like the opening line of my ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... quarter real GDP growth confirmed the Fed's positive outlook on the economy and gave meat to its decision to end its quantitative easing programme. And we all know, where there's meat... there's a barbecue. This is exactly what Wall Street did overnight ...

Surprise tapering delay boosts Australian shares

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
... according to industry experts. Federal Reserve chairman Ban Bernanke said the US would continue its $85 billion a month quantitative easing a little while longer, amid concerns that the economy may not be quite out of the woods yet. The decision sent ...

New AllianceBernstein fund offers solution for Fed tapering

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... return objective to the Australian retail market. With the end of the US Federal Reserve's US$85 billion a month quantitative easing policy looming on the horizon, and global interest rates set to rise, the global fund manager argues that it's now time ...

Same old blues but some upside in 2013: Russell and Threadneedle

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... administration." Elsewhere he said that the increasing demand for income in the face of market volatility, combined with ongoing quantitative easing measures would be constructive for share prices. However, despite the improving environment, both men ...

Five step process for QE3

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
A five step process can help investors ride the US Federal Reserve's latest round of open-ended quantitative easing, said a senior Fidelity Investment head. Even if you are skeptical about the long-term impact of QE3, "it would be a bold call in the ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... commodity prices, in particular the spike in the prices of food and oil. This will prompt calls for central banks to end quantitative easing and/or tighten monetary policy. Chinese authorities have already tighten and will be tightening some more to ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... rebuilding. Not so for its counterparts. Despite growing momentum in the US economy, the Fed's still maintaining its quantitative easing program. Juts last night, Bloomberg reported that Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans believes ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... as erecting barriers to portfolio capital inflows. This is in direct contrast to the very low interest rates and quantitative easing programs currently engaged in by developed nations' central banks. The recent rise of food and energy prices - commodities ...

Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... contagion by Greece's sovereign debt crisis. But this might be resolved through concerted action by the G-20 and/or quantitative easing by the European Central Bank. Or perhaps... China could buy Greece. In the end, this correction could prove to be ...