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Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... I'm guessing it'll more or less mirror that of the US. What happens now? What happens now is nothing... much. Monetary policy expectations would remain as they are - the Fed and the BOE would begin lift-off by next year; the ECB could announce QE; the ...

Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... real GDP was still expected to rise faster than potential output in 2015 and 2016, supported by accommodative monetary policy and a further easing of the restraint on spending from changes in fiscal policy; in 2017, real GDP growth was projected to step ...

Forward guidance at its best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... gradual and limited." Get ready for an interest rate lift off then? Well, errr... not quite. This is because the monetary policy council (MPC) judges that there's around 1.0% slack in the economy - and along with "them" - has changed the inflation outlook ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... 26 points at 5,521. In local economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its statement on monetary policy. Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association's performance of construction index (PCI) for October is also due out. ...

A trillion euros is in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... and analysis, and the Governing Council will closely monitor and continuously assess the appropriateness of its monetary policy stance. Should it become necessary." Why should it become necessary? There are two contingencies we look at. The first contingency ...

Investors should be wary of mixed USD signals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
Mixed signals coming from the US Fed's monetary policy committee should temper investors from overreacting to expectations of rising US rates and an increasing USD, noted Amundi Asset Management in its latest global investor update. Causing the ambiguity ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... November, when the "Race that Stops the Nation' - the Melbourne Cup - meets with the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy decision. I have lived in Australia (and Melbourne, at that) - for nearly 25 years and still, I can't really see and ...

Goodbye QE, hello QQE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... trick or treat this Halloween by expanding its QQE. The trick. Not even a full month before (7 October), in its monetary policy statement, the Japanese central bank told you, I and Irene that, "Japan's economy is expected to continue its moderate recovery ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... since September 2010. The central bank's concern over the persistence of rising consumer prices is evident in its monetary policy action - it has jacked up its target SELIC rate nine times from 7.25% in April 2013 to 11.0% in April this year, where it ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... changed as the market absorbed losses in petroleum stocks while looking ahead to a two-day US Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday rose 12.53 points (0.07 per cent) to 16,817.94. The broad-based S&P 500 ...