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Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... deal with inflation in their own economies." In a way, this is everybody's fault. The Fed's for unleashing a flood of US dollars. Investors for taking those dollars and parking them into higher yielding emerging markets. And emerging markets for artificially ...

BetaShares launches currency ETF

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... performance of the US dollar (US$) relative to the Australian dollar (A$). The underlying assets of the fund consist of US dollars held in a bank account with JP Morgan Chase Bank. Drew Corbett, head of investment strategy and distribution at BetaShares ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... the US dollar rebound imply? Santa says the US economy is on track for recovery and therefore investors are buying US dollars to purchase US-denominated assets. Look at Europe, the spread between Irish and German bonds is narrowing. But according to ...

Rise of Asia bonds: Temasek

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... almost S$8 billion ($6.3 billion) between October last year and July. Six were denominated in Singapore dollars, two in US dollars, two in Sterling. Including its maiden US dollar bond issued in September 2005, the fund has 11 outstanding bonds totaling ...

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... we'll have a full house - with the Fed, the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank minting unlimited supplies of US dollars, yens and euros. Gold and other hard commodities would stand to benefit from this increased production of money. And of course ...

Strong dollar fuels shift to unhedged intl equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... if it is an unhedged international fund," said Bineham. Bineham also said some of his own clients having bought up US dollars in preparation for travel or simply ahead of the dollar falling. Meanwhile, Mathew Kaleel, chief investment officer at H3 Global ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... days you're looking at the market's performance since the US Federal Reserve magically created US$600 billion more US dollars on 3 November. Since then, Wall Street climbed three days (including last night's) and was down two. Since then, the S&P 500 ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... massage financial market expectations. But at the same time this infers that QE2 is a done deal. And with QE2 comes more US dollars. More US dollars mean upward pressure on non-US dollar currencies. This is why despite the G20's promise to "move towards ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... allow their currencies be when the US Federal Reserve is poised to flood the global financial system with newly minted US dollars. The point is that downward pressure on the US dollar will continue. The imminent QE2 announcement would be large enough ...

Pigs are bacon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... weaken. Yeah sure, pigs can fly. But action speaks louder than words. Pigs are bacon! With the prospect of newly minted US dollars coming our way - expected to be around US$500 billion to US$1,000,000,000,000 (US$1 trillion) - via QE2, what's there to ...