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Five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
Australian business confidence surges in December but confidence is unmoved. This is the message from the NAB monthly business survey. The business confidence jumped to a reading of 11 in December from 6 in the previous month. The first double-digit ...

ASIC imposes $40,000 penalty

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
... client)", during which the client had submitted 139,132 trading messages. The trade in question was cancelled within minutes of submission. Compliance with the infringement notice is not an admission of guilt or liability by Pershing.

Minutes to disaster

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... The spoken words perhaps... not the written one. Not when they're inked in black in white and autographed as in the minutes of the 26-27 April FOMC meeting. "Participants expressed a range of views about the likelihood that incoming information would ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... high as US$0.7826 overnight and is currently fetching US$0.7805 - a 13.7% appreciation from this year's US$0.6864. The minutes of the RBA's 5 April Board meeting - the local unit was trading at US$0.7543 on that day -- touched on the causes for the currency's ...

December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... measures as early last month. It hasn't. The BOJ kept policy unchanged at its 30 October because, according to the minutes of that meeting, "With regard to economic activity, members shared the recognition that the economy continued to recover moderately" ...

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... unduly magnify the perceived importance of the beginning of the policy normalization process." This one sentence in the minutes of the October FOMC alone captures the message that Fed chiefs have lately been spreading on their speaking tours - it's not ...

Pepared for "lift-off" watch out for "ceasing"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... plays a very important role in the stock market's direction. This is now in the Fed's crosshairs, according to the minutes of the September FOMC meeting: "A staff briefing provided background on the macroeconomic effects of alternative approaches to ...

The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... (when prices fall some more), lessen sales and profits and lower growth. Or, in a word, Japan. In this regard, the minutes of the Fed's 28-29 July meeting offers some insight. "Although energy prices and non-oil import prices were expected to begin rising ...

FSU secretary and executive reach impasse

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... Counteracting decisions on the appointment, engagement, assignment and termination of employees; Replacing circulated minutes of meetings of the national executive with amended versions; Appointing sub-committees to investigate complaints made against ...

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... (http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/51858182) "The Fed's move remains data dependent" The just-released minutes of the same meeting backed up my statement. Now betting for a September move has gone down to 34% from 50% before the butcher ...