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Confused and confounded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... to do. Wall Street fell on the day - 18 September -- the Fed announced that it is maintaining the status quo on monetary policy. Sure, the Street was disappointed, hence the adverse reaction. The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) even ...

Fed will lift later this year if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... already rung even before US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen uttered her first word on "Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy" at the At the Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture, University of Massachusetts, overnight. Then again, Wall Street didn't miss ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... that Janet and Co decided to err on the side of caution. For what good would it do to take the first step into monetary policy normalisation now if it causes the financial markets and the US economy to take two or three steps back in the process? Or ...

The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... crunching the numbers as I type to give an intelligent and convincing rationale for "aye" or "nay" vote come their monetary policy deliberations on 16-17 September. It's crunch time for financial markets too, given the reaction they've displayed so far ...

VicSuper awards $100m corporate bonds mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... investment officer Oscar Fabian said. "However uncertainty surrounds the timing and extent of these changes to monetary policy." He noted that Australian loans portfolios "significantly reduce interest rate duration risk (i.e. the negative impact on ...

China stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... stimulus measures - any stimulus measure - just turned into reality. Yes folks, Beijing's topping up last month's monetary policy easing - lowered interest rate and RRR - with expansionary fiscal policies. According to Xinhua News Agency - central command's ...

Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... this is and what Gov Glenn had been talking about for a long while now. And this is that there are limits to what monetary policy could achieve - it's now pushing on a string -- and therefore... go Keynesian! Yes, that great guy, the British economist ...

Cash is king at the Future Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... executive David Neal said that during the year "we were very deliberately positioned to take advantage of the stimulus monetary policy in Europe and the United States." But with monetary policy set to tighten and investors expecting an increase in interest ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... recent priming of the pump isn't enough to get to PM Li's 7.0% target. But me says, Rome wasn't built in a day - monetary policy operates with a lag, give the other four rate cuts implemented since November last year (and the RRR reductions) time to ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... commodity prices. We can blame it on the Fed and the rolling uncertainty over the timing and trajectory of its monetary policy. We can blame Japan and Europe for their "beggar thy neighbour" policies by depreciating their currencies. We can blame it ...