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Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... bigger-than-expected drop in jobless claims suggest continued improvement in labour market going forward. The weaker US dollar is having a positive impact in the US external account. The trade deficit narrowed to US$44.0 bil in September against US$46.5 ...

QE2 overstays welcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/30578/ ). More so because they see the Fed's largesse comes at their expense. Many non-US dollar currency countries have already implemented measures to protect their economies from the negative repercussions ...

Healing US, crouching Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... showed that investors really didn't give an F over these non-US economies' twisting and shouting. They ran back to the US dollar because they found another reason to worry about. The eurozone and its sovereign debt crisis: that's what it is. Yes, ladies ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... quantitative easing announced by the US Federal Reserve last week had been positive for equities and negative for the US dollar. "That is positive for our equities because you are pumping into the resources sector via higher commodity prices," he said. ...

Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... lot of negative impacts for the world economy. If there is no restraint in issuing major global currencies such as the US dollar, the occurrence of another crisis is inevitable." And according to some reports, it even told developing countries to act ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... gains are coming from the miners," he said. "Commodity prices rose very strongly overnight in the face of the weaker US dollar, and investor appetite is on the rise after the US Federal Reserve announced its stimulus package," he said. At 1200 AEDT ...

QE2 is Gold(ilocks)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... Commodity prices are up, equity markets are up, bond markets are up. Cheap money (even cheaper now with the dumping of the US dollar) is ending into speculative activity, not productive ones. Inflation. Oh yes, more money than is demanded equals higher ...

Head faked again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... conundrum if you will, for Australia. Because more Fed purchases of US Treasuries would lower their yields and devalue the US dollar. What these mean is that the added liquidity in the system this engenders would seek higher yields elsewhere. Would rather ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... are higher, as are precious and base metals and oil. The Australian dollar briefly reached parity once more with the US dollar on Tuesday night. On the ASX24 at 0754 AEDT, the December share price index contract was 13 points higher at 4,714 points. ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... 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 market-determined exchange rate system", to " refrain from ...