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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... average jumped as many as 164 points, or 1.3 per cent. Most of those gains evaporated later in the day after Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said in a speech that the Fed had already "pressed the limits of monetary policy." The ...

Same time last year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... with investors interpreting his statement as not too dovish enough. More so when President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank Richard Fisher announced at an interview on CNBC that he would oppose any suggestion at QE3. I'm not so sure for I've learnt ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... might be ending QE2 in June but it's continuing its "very easy" monetary policy for an "extended period". US Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren emphasised this in his speech last night. "With significant slack in labor markets, stable ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... warrant any substantial shift in the stance of monetary policy." It was the same tune that President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York William Dudley sang in Tokyo, telling his audience that the US central bank "shouldn't be overly enthusiastic ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... economy, the Fed's still maintaining its quantitative easing program. Juts last night, Bloomberg reported that Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans believes that, "Despite recent improvements to the outlook, we are not yet at that ...

Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... have defected over to our bullish camp for the Fed's still got our backs. This is no better expressed than Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans when he told his audience in Rockford, Illinois that, "With unemployment too high and inflation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... overshadowed a bigger than expected rise in the number of people applying for unemployment benefits. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said its index of manufacturing in the mid-Atlantic region nearly doubled between January and February. The ...

Vanguard chairman to retire

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... Duffield will retire at the end of the year, the company announced. Duffield joined Vanguard in 1980 from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia, where he served in economic research. His first role at the firm was as an assistant to Vanguard ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... just over a couple of billions and then grew, and grew, and grew. Just two days ago, I wrote about St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller interview with Reuters and from his statement concluded that: "The Fed meets eight ...

QE2 still the main game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... grand daddy of them all. QE2. Yes, print more of the green stuff. In an interview with Reuters, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller said that, "There's a lot of credibility to it that if we were going to (move) the ...