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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following a positive lead from Wall Street. At 0823 AEST on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 13 points at 5,553. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
The Australian share market is lower as a large fall in commodity prices overnight weighs on the market. Oil prices have plunged, with Brent North Sea crude for delivery in December hitting a four-year low after Saudi Arabia slashed its export prices ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... 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 monetary easing measures (31 October). It'll be interesting to know the RBA's ...

Goodbye QE, hello QQE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... go go go, oh no You say goodbye and I say hello Hello hello" -- The Beatles Just as the Fed concluded QE3, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) served up the biggest trick or treat this Halloween by expanding its QQE. The trick. Not even a full month before (7 October) ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open slightly higher after Wall Street gained more than one per cent following the Bank of Japan's surprise stimulus announcement ignited a rally on global stock exchanges. At 0818 AEST on Monday, the December share ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... at the same time that the European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to roll out its money printing machine and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) anticipated to print some more. The Fed killed QE because "Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee ...

China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
The suspense is chillingly killing... you could almost taste it by just looking at Wall Street's performance last night. It was decidedly undecided. Two ups and two downs. The Dow and the Nasdaq both finished 0.1% on the up while the S&P 500 and the ...

QEnd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... so, because this comes at the same time that financial markets anticipate the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to ramp up their respective QEs. I guess we just have to wait for the Fed's fresh take on this. The latest American ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
What a difference a week makes. Yes, yes, yo Virginia, in just seven winks, financial market sentiment went from "shiver me timbers, the sky is falling" to hapeee. Don't believe me? Here's Bloomberg's take last 15 October in its report headed, "World ...

Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... September - and the eurozone, where core inflation had barely scraped above 1.0% since August last year... and prices in Japan (ex taxes or not) have also been easing in recent times. Though not as dramatic, core inflation in Australia - based on the ...