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Fed seeks feedback on rules to resolve large bank failures

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2022
... would also seek comment on the costs associated with proposals for large banking organisations and their customers. Fed vice chair for supervision Michael Barr said: "As the banking system changes, policymakers must continuously evaluate whether resolution-related ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street sneezes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
It may have started in China and is infecting its way around the planet but the coronavirus hadn't had much impact on equity markets until it hit investor sentiment on Wall Street. Five straight down days have taken returns on the S&P 500 index ...

Who spooked the greenback?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Have financial markets stumbled on the one catalyst that could herald the beginning of the end... the end of the sour taste in their mouths for all things "risk" since the onset of 2016? They're getting back their mojos. Many, many times I have scribbled ...

Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
"You say it best when you say nothing at all." - Ronan Keating Or rather, they did - the voting and non-voting members of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC). Their conflicting stances did not settle the when of the lift-off issue one single ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Like a dog with a bone, financial markets have latched onto growth - or more precisely, the lack of it - and wouldn't let go. Wall Street remains in no mood for celebration even as America commemorated the day Christopher Columbus discovered their land ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... Federal Reserve. In prepared remarks released in advance of her hearing before the US Senate, Yellen, the current Fed vice chair, signalled her support for continuing the central bank's $US85 billion-a-month bond-buying until the economy shows signs ...

China's turn to provide buy opportunities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... the dip buyers are out in force once again. Yup, this week it's China's turn to provide the buy-op. And why not? Fed vice chair Janet Yellen, in her speech before the National Association for Business Economics Policy Conference in Washington last night ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
It's all quiet on the Wall Street front overnight. The US quarterly company earnings reporting season must be about to commence. Just in case. Trading volume was low and bereft of direction. The Dow was up 0.01 per cent and the S&P 500 was down 0.3 ...

US Fed hints rates holiday may be over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
The US Federal Reserve, stung by criticism it dropped rates to protect favoured institutions in a preferred segment, is warning they won't keep protecting them forever. "To be sure, lowering interest rates to keep the economy on an even keel when adverse ...
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