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Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... overnight. Bad news, they say, come in threes. Here's the third for a trifecta. Speculations are building that the US Federal Reserve could drop its "considerable time" phrase when the FOMC meets next week (16-17 December) on the back of the strengthening ...

MetLife US proactive lobbying lesson for Aust

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... concerns that under the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) set up as part of the Frank-Dodd Act that the Federal Reserve Board has designated MetLife alongside leading banks as a Strategically Important Financial Institution (SIFI) requiring ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... or 0.78 per cent, at 5,301.2 points. NEW YORK - The Dow and S&P 500 have bolted to fresh record highs after a Federal Reserve report showed the US economy was growing amid widespread optimism about the outlook. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 33.07 ...

Cash rate more likely to fall than rise: PIMCO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... definitely the second most likely case, with rate hikes being nowhere on the agenda." Mead said he expects the US Federal Reserve, meanwhile, to begin lifting rates around July or August next year, at the rate of around 25 basis points every couple of ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street fluctuated as the Federal Reserve's minutes show many policymakers see the need to watch for inflation. At 0905 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was down ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... Analysts said the report marked another month of job growth above 200,000, but was not strong enough to prod the Federal Reserve to shift from its plan to keep interest rates low well into 2015. LONDON - European stock markets diverged after a mixed ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... announced the operational details of asset-backed securities and covered bond purchase programmes (2 October); the US Federal Reserve announced the completion of QE3 (29 October); and, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) expanded its quantitative and qualitative ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... asset-buying scheme, bringing it to Y80 trillion annually in an unexpected shift aimed at reviving growth just as the US Federal Reserve winds down its own stimulus spree. LONDON - European stocks surged as the Bank of Japan's surprise stimulus sent ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... the CAC rose 0.74 per cent to 4.141.24 points and Frankfurt's Dax was up 0.35 per cent at 9,114.84 points. The Federal Reserve's withdrawal of its vast bond-buying scheme known as quantitative easing (QE), had earlier also hit sentiment across global ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... atmospherics." Spooner said the local market appeared to be undeterred by a fall in US markets prompted by the US Federal Reserve's decision to end its economic stimulus program. Spooner said the main impact of the Fed's decision was on bond and currency ...