Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 871 - 880 of 1451 results for "Monetary Policy"

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... meeting tonight sees the market positioned for a downgrade of economic projections." The Federal Reserve's two day monetary policy meeting is not expected to result in any change to its program for tapering stimulus measures. In the resources sector ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... investors shrug off Russia's move to formally absorb Crimea and begin turning attention to a US Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting. At 0645 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 16 points at 5,364. In local economic ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... stats, the US Non-farm Payrolls report, did not contain any shocking information to change the Fed's thoughts on monetary policy. US employment increased by 175K in February. This is better than market expectations for a 150K. Better, December and January ...

Action!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... But enough of flying pigs, Darryl and my dream. Here's what the BOJ decided after the conclusion of its two-day monetary policy deliberations yesterday. No change to monetary policy target. No surprises here. It will continue to conduct money market ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... after. We'll find out later today how the BOJ reacts to these negative developments after the conclusion of its monetary policy meeting. Expectations are for it to do nothing. I beg to disagree. It must do something, anything and now. So does the Abe ...

FEATURE: The cost of cash

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... thinking that if most of the price rise in non-tradable assets is due to government decision making [as a result of monetary policy being tightened in the US] then they will expect it to simply wash through the system. I think that inflation will go ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... raised at least until jobs, incomes and spending were growing at sustainable rates." But what happened to the Monetary Policy Council (MPC) would start considering lifting the Bank Rate when the unemployment rate hit the 7.0% threshold? Well, at the ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... open higher following gains on international markets after new Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen's promise that monetary policy would continue and strong Chinese trade data. At 0850 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... US stocks opened higher after new Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen told Congress she has no plans to change monetary policy set under predecessor Ben Bernanke.

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... estimate the longer-run normal rate of unemployment is between 5.2 and 5.8 percent. However, because changes in monetary policy affect the economy with a lag, policymakers recognize that it will be necessary to begin moving away from highly accommodative ...