Over the next eight months the Federal Reserve will conduct QE2 – quantitative easing, the sequel. It will buy $600 billion worth of US long-term bonds in the open market, close to 7% of all Treasuries in public hands. $600 billion is also roughly equivalent to the total amount of net debt the federal government [...]
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Germany and China have expressed concerns over US plans to pump $600bn (£373bn) into the US economy.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the US would not solve its problems, but create “extra problems for the world” instead.
Some countries fear [...]
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Rating rates
I was asked the other day whether, as a long term investor, I paid much attention to interest rate moves. Well, perhaps unsurprisingly, the answer was ‘not really’. But I would also extend this to other considerations, including political and more general economic factors. To [...]
DOW leading us astray?
Well it may appear that way. And as the US heads into a midterm vote and with the prospect of a hung decision – this is still seen as a positive for the markets and so they just keep pushing higher.
As you can see from the overlay below our market (blue) has [...]
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Top Level Position Scam?
You may have seen the Top Level Position Worldwide viral marketing site… sound too good to be true? Is Top Level Position a Scam? I’ll go over some details that have leaked in this hub page, so keep reading.
Top Level Position is ridiculous… or is it?
What the heck are [...]
SINGAPORE (AFP) – – The Singapore and Australian stock exchanges on Monday announced a multi-billion dollar merger that will create one of the world’s largest and most diversified financial trading hubs.
Singapore’s SGX offered 8.2 billion US dollars to take over Sydney-based ASX to form ASX-SGX Ltd in a deal combining Australia’s strength in resources with [...]
Mining magnate Andrew Forrest says the Australian dollar is likely to hit parity with the US dollar ‘‘shortly,’’ as benefits of the resources boom spill into the wider economy.
After the currency overnight struck a two-year high of 94.94 US cents, the Fortescue Metals chief said he thought it had further to rise thanks to the [...]
Explosive documents and phone tapes reveal an investor’s worst nightmare about stockbrokers. Stuart Washington reports.
PETER McGUIRE is, by all appearances, the super-successful stockbroker fronting CWA Global Markets, with a fondness for $200,000-plus Mercedes cars.
At the height of the boom his business was selling risky financial products like hot cakes, allowing its top broker to [...]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — If you are a responsible saver, the Federal Reserve isn’t doing you any favors.
The Fed unsurprisingly left a key short-term rate near 0% Tuesday, meaning that rates on money-market accounts, CDs and other savings products are likely to remain as anemic as they’ve been for the past two years.
But the Fed [...]
Eight locally-listed companies have made it to the Forbes list of best small- and medium-sized firms, attributed to growing sectors like property, resources and infrastructure. The number of Singapore companies on the “Best Under A Billion” list of Forbes Asia has increased from five in 2009, but is still lower compared to the 14 firms [...]
