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Australian stocks weaker at close

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... market analyst Stan Shamu said the deterioration in confidence had continued due to volatility in Japan and ongoing quantitative easing in the US. "Investor confidence has been rattled," Mr Shamu said. "There's been more blanket selling. There's been ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... officials of the Federal Reserve kept speculation alive over the timing for the central bank to begin slowing its quantitative-easing bond purchases, though most stressed the need for a clearer trend in the data for US growth. The trade figures for April ...

Markets poised on knife-edge: Standard Life Investments

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... There is only some evidence that investors are adding risk. People will only want risk assets until the punch bowl of Quantitative Easing is removed. "A scale back in the Federal Reserve's support could be as early as spring this year, not autumn next ...

Gold as an "insurance" against inflation: Lazard

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
Gold can be a good "insurance policy" against inflation as global central banks are following a policy of quantitative easing (QE) that could devalue the money, according to Lazard. Lazard portfolio manager of Global Thematic Equity Nicholas Bratt expressed ...

AllianceBernstein launches tail risk protection strategy

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... commonly used in statistics," said Michael DePalma, AllianceBernstein's New York-based chief investment officer for quantitative investment strategies, during a visit to Australia this week. "But we know from experience-particularly since the 2008 financial ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... at 5,086. Dr Bernanke's testimony warned of the risks to the recovering US economy should the Fed cut back on its quantitative easing (QE) program, yet later, the Federal Open Market Committee's May minutes suggested the move had already been considered. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... "Investors may have been encouraged that the Federal Reserve will hold off from tapering off its asset purchases (quantitative easing) for longer." Ms Chan said the continuation of quantitative easing helped support US Treasuries prices. At 0830 AEST ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... Australian dollar slid below parity with the greenback which surged on persistent speculation about a winding back of quantitative easing by Washington ahead of US retail sales data due later on Monday. Tokyo rose 1.20 per cent, or 174.67 points, to ...

Warren Buffett praises Fed stimulus measures

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... of the global conglomerate, said that the decision by both Bush and Obama's administrations to follow aggressive quantitative easing programs had been the right one. "We've had a lot of fiscal stimulus. We've had an extraordinary amount of monetary stimulus. ...

Women don't trust financial advisers: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... talking about the actual products." The research is in the initial stage and the findings are qualitative and not quantitative, so it is still early to draw conclusions, Russell explained. However, the fact that only one woman in a hundred had had a ...