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Reading too much out of nothing at all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
It's out!...and it didn't surprise. Yes Virginia, there were no surprises in the Fed's decision to keep monetary policy unchanged after it concluded its 28-29 tete-a-tete. But what was surprising was Wall Street's reaction - the Dow and the S&P 500 ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... had been expected to keep interest rates unchanged, but some experts thought it might elaborate on its plans for monetary policy. "We started off on the right foot and we didn't get anything negative from the Fed," said Michael James, managing director ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... the biggest one-day plunge in Chinese equities in more than eight years. Markets meanwhile awaited this week's monetary policy meeting of the US Federal Reserve for a handle on its plans for interest rates. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of major ...

RBNZ tries to turn the turn in NZ economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... and extent to which the OCR will need to rise will depend on the assessment of the impact of the tightening in monetary policy to date, and the implications of future economic and financial data for inflationary pressures." We now learn that the 25 bps ...

It's not the when but the what happens after

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... try to outguess each other and the Fed over the exact timing of the US central bank's first step into returning monetary policy back to normal, the more relevant question is how would financial markets react. The latest Wall Street Journal (WSJ) survey ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... Sydney and told his audience that, "One of the features of much regular discussion of macroeconomic policy, and monetary policy in particular, is that people tend to adopt a rather short time-frame. Everyone watches high-frequency data and adjusts expectations ...

Higher US rates will test investors' nerves: QIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... The global factors that QIC identified as signs that the term premium will increase are the "normalisation" of monetary policy following the US Federal Reserve tapering of its quantitative easing programs. Other drivers are investors' demand for higher ...

A$ down but would it stay down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... there's less downside on commodity prices. The single most rational rationale for the A$'s fall is the divergence in monetary policy - with Greece and China now out of the way (or seemingly) -- the Fed can now lift while the RBA is expected to remain ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... at some point later this year to take the first step to raise the federal funds rate and thus begin normalising monetary policy". Or not: "But I want to emphasise that the course of the economy and inflation remains highly uncertain, and unanticipated ...

The fat lady in concert on Sunday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... word. "The forthcoming 'lift-off' by the Federal Reserve, when it happens, will surely be the most telegraphed monetary policy adjustment in history." But before that, the Fed would also want to know what the fat lady's singing.