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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... But the US unemployment rate ticked down to 7.3 per cent, closer to the Fed's target of 7.0 per cent for raising interest rates, and European stocks soon fell back into the red. At close, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index showed a gain of 0.23 per cent ...

September morn' or September mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... inflation?A Headline was running at an average rate of 2.6% in 1994, core at 2.8%. The Fed's definitely not raising interest rates, but will it taper...in September? We could only speculate on what the crowd's reaction would be if (or is it when?) the ...

Still in Goldilocks land

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... metal is not the same as slamming on the brakes (stopping QE altogether) and/or going into reverse gear (raising interest rates). Markets are sure forward looking eh? But they could be looking so far, far ahead that they're being blinded by what's happening ...

Global bond melt-down on cards: Harris Fraser

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... the total $3.5 trillion issue of Treasury bills, the US is the largest global 'manager' of its own debt. Raising interest rates with this holding, adds Geary would have a ruinous effect on the US government, sending prices plummeting. This means that ...

Dam Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... shedding jobs too. I don't know about the banks (and the rationales they put forward for shedding staff and raising interest rates), but all of these local and locally-based companies hurt whenever optimism over world growth prevails because it sends ...

The sound of QE3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... least'." OK, maybe not as soon as August, but "at least two or three meetings away." Surely, he didn't mean raising interest rates. Au contraire. "Further action," to me, equals QE3 - in some form or another. For there's no way he's hinting at raising ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... could see the break up of the EU." At the same time the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was talking about raising interest rates, he said. "We are seeing the slow erosion of value each week." The financial sector was weaker. Among the banks, NAB was ...

No minute message in FOMC minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... minutes revealed that while members have started deliberations toward normalising monetary policy - read, raising interest rates from abnormally low levels - this wouldn't be happening anytime soon. And - once the decision's made -- we would be given ...

May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... because investors' ignored China's higher-than-expected inflation reading and the threat of its central bank raising interest rates some more? Same news different spins -- all because of differing market actions. The sagging earnings that took US equities ...

Budget bore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... higher interest rates. Look at what's happening in China, India and other emerging countries. They've been raising interest rates almost forever to try to bring down inflation. Heck, even the European Central Bank - with all its problems and all - have ...