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“Exit strategy” is the current buzz phrase among market watchers, with the dollar rallying in recent days and weeks on expectations that all is well with the US economy again, and that the Fed can now start thinking about ways of selling assets and “exiting” from its current commitment to perpetual quantitative ...
Markets have been roiled over the last 48 hours by the three B’s: Berlusconi, Bernanke and Boehner. The indecisive Italian election outcome and the strength of the anti-austerity vote has many traders thinking that the whole eurozone issue is not receding in the rear-view mirror quite as quickly as some had hoped. EURUSD fell by ...
Some of the dust from Ben Bernanke’s “QE3” announcement on 13 September has settled. The Federal Reserve is now committed to spending $40 billion a month on agency mortgage-backed securities – an open-ended plan. It is also extending extremely low interest rates (together zero interest rate policy and ...
As expected, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke didn’t disappoint yesterday: “QE3” is here at last, though it wasn’t called that by him. The Fed is now committed to open-ended purchases of $40 billion’s worth of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) a month in order to stimulate the housing market and to keep ...
My father, who at one time was an education minister in the Kenyan government, used to tell a story of a long-forgotten crisis when the leaders in the educational establishment could only turn to him and ask: ”minister, what shall we do?” The point of the story is that these were all highly qualified senior academics, while my ...
Gold and silver prices surged on Friday, as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke launched a spirited defence of the Fed’s quantitative easing efforts at his Jackson Hole symposium speech. Though he did not announce an actual timetable for new monetary stimulus measures – he wouldn’t have wanted to front run his ...
Another Ben Bernanke performance in front of the US Senate momentarily caught the attention of financial markets yesterday, up until the point when it became clear that the Fed wouldn’t be liquoring up the joint with more QE just yet. Despite the litany of bad economic stats in the US over the last three months or so, Bernanke noted ...
It was a day of two halves for markets yesterday, with the first half dominated by news that the People’s Bank of China (PBC) has cut Chinese interest rates for the first time since December 2008, while the second saw traders getting to grips with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s testimony before Congress. The PBC ...
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