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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... per cent in the prior three days. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets pushed upwards, helped by speculation that central banks may take further stimulation measures and put off rate hikes to support global economic growth. London's benchmark FTSE 100 ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... (the spread of it), the IMF, ISIS, Putin, oil, earnings, technicals, etc, etc etc. And then they hit... hard -- the central banks' jawbones, that is, whispering mo' money. And now Houston, we have lift off and volatility is nearly half (16.27 this morning ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... again. "I get knocked down but I get up again, you're never going to keep me down". Nah Virginia, the world's biggest central banks didn't lift a finger, they merely used their collective jawbones to do the scaring away of the spooks over world growth ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... day, the policy responses of 2011 are instructive. When worse became worst that year, 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 - announced ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... be "exceptionally patient" on rates lift off. Has the Fed lost its mojo? And for that matter, all the other major central banks on the planet... them who promised to do "whatever it takes"? I must admit that while it was easy to cry "buy them dips, buy ...

Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... scenario. After all, markets rallied back to life thereafter... with Fed help (QE4 anyone?). More ominous is that central banks have lost credibility to reflate their respective economies... in which case, the bear (market) could be lurking just around ...

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... tepid with geo-politics, geo-health providing downside risks; the greater the threat to growth, the less appetite central banks (Fed and BOE) to normalise monetary policy or provide more stimuli (ECB and BOJ and PBOC) until the risks go away and economies ...

Unexpected impact of tech on US monetary policy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... has the power to impact employment levels, the rate of economic growth and even prices - the major focus areas of central banks. The falling cost of robots that aid manufacturing is having an impact on the number of jobs available in factories, the Internet ...

Unconstrained fixed income funds gaining institutional support

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
As central banks grapple with quantitative easing and markets look towards a period of instability, institutional investors are rethinking traditional fixed income approaches. Henderson Global Investors head of fixed income Phil Apel told Financial ...

Liberalise economy or prepare for war, warns economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... Germany declared war on Russia markets were going along very nicely." Rickards also stressed the limitations of central banks, saying they only have the power to deal with cyclical problems, not the structural crises such as the ones he claims we are ...