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Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... Fed completed its QE taper back in October last year. There was plenty of information in the transcript of US Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen's 1,926 word testimony. So very, very much, that anybody and everybody could pick and choose what they ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher following rises on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve chief indicated the US central bank was in no hurry to raise its interest rate. At 0833 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... after Wall Street fell following mixed US housing data, a lacklustre reading on inflation and indications the Federal Reserve is in no hurry to raise interest rates. At 0900 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was down one ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
... surged to a more than seven-year high as the yen retreated against the dollar thanks to investors betting on the US Federal Reserve hiking interest rates soon. The Nikkei in Tokyo, which was closed Wednesday for a public holiday, rallied 1.85 per cent ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... York on Friday. HONG KONG - Most Asian markets have slipped as a strong US jobs report fuelled expectations the Federal Reserve will bring forward an interest rate rise. But poor Chinese trade data on Monday lifted shares in Shanghai on hopes Beijing ...

It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... thereafter - April then June - lift-off here we come. She told us so. But before this, we'll get a glimpse of the Federal Reserve Chairman's inclination on interest rate policy when she delivers her semi-annual Humphrey-Hawkins testimony before the US ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... on the back of declines in the US triggered by concerns over a strengthening dollar and falling oil prices. The Federal Reserve failed to buoy markets when it repeated its pledge Wednesday to remain "patient" regarding the United States' first interest ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open sharply lower after falls on Wall Street amid speculation the Federal Reserve remains on course to raise borrowing costs. At 0900 AEST on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was down 65 points ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... the macro economy. What happened then? What happened is escalating oil prices cured escalating oil prices. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's paper on the "Oil Shock of 1978-79" concludes that: "Eventually, slowing economic activity in industrial ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
... and disappointing US growth stats early in the New Year (polar vortex). Overlayed against all these is the US Federal Reserve's continued withdrawal of policy stimulation. The big dump of biotechs and social media stocks; Putin and Crimea and Ukraine ...