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Global Shares Up As Fed Draws Taper's Sting; Dollar Gains Broadly
Published in Amwal Al Ghad on 19 - 12 - 2013

Asian share markets rose on Thursday after the Federal Reserve drew the sting from tapering its stimulus by recommitting to low interest rates, leaving Wall Street at record heights and the dollar galloping above 104.00 yen for the first time since 2008.
The dollar was a major beneficiary, surging as far as 104.37 yen at one point before pausing at 104.13. The euro toppled back to $1.3667, from a $1.3811 top.
The slide in the yen was viewed as positive for Japanese exports and profits, and thus for the Nikkei .N225 which climbed 1.7 percent, hitting its highest closing level in six years.
After months of agonizing, investors took the Fed's decision to trim its bond buying by $10 billion to $75 billion a month as a modest step and one the U.S. economy could well withstand.
Crucially, the Fed softened the blow by making its forward guidance even more dovish. TOP/CEN
"It likely will be appropriate to maintain the current target range for the federal funds rate well past the time that the unemployment rate declines below 6-1/2 percent, especially if projected inflation continues to run below the committee's 2 percent longer-run goal," the Fed statement said.
Alan Ruskin, global head of G10 currency strategy at Deutsche Bank in New York, noted the Fed's forecasts for the funds rate had also been trimmed out to the end of 2016.
"This is a very dovish taper-liter where the Fed has done its utmost to provide an offset with forward guidance," said Ruskin.
"It tends to elevate the importance of the inflation rate in decision making should it be meaningfully undershooting target, which is very constructive for risky assets."
The market seemed to agree, with the Dow .DJI ending Wednesday up 1.84 percent, while the S&P 500 .SPX gained 1.66 percent and the Nasdaq .IXIC 1.15 percent.
Stocks gained from Sydney .AXJO to Seoul .KS11, while MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ00 00PUS edged up 0.2 percent.
Financial bookmakers expected UK, Germany and French equities to rise as much as 1 percent on Thursday.
Shanghai broke ranks with a drop of 0.6 percent .SSEC after China's central bank declined to add liquidity to the banking system, pushing up money market rates.
LOW FOR LONGER
The Fed's message that tapering was not tightening looked to have resonated in debt markets as Fed fund futures held broadly steady out to the early 2016 contracts. A first hike in the funds rate is not fully priced in until November 2015.
Treasury yields were stable for three years ahead, while rising at the longer end as the yield curve steepened. Yields on 10-year notes increased 5 basis points to 2.89 percent, but remain below their 2013 peak of 3 percent.
Still, tapering could be a double-edged sword for some Asian countries since it could accelerate the "great rotation" of funds out of emerging markets and into developed world assets.
Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia have all been hit to a varying extent in recent months.
The Indonesian rupiah hit a fresh five-year low, though the Fed's move was welcomed by Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia, Perry Warjiyo.
"The announcement provides more clarity for the direction of Fed monetary policy," the deputy governor told Reuters.
"That would be positive for financial market stability, including rupiah stability, going forward. A more visible U.S. economic recovery would also help Indonesian exports."
Others are also better prepared for the change. Notably the mood around India has improved enough that the country's central bank could hold off on hiking interest rates on Wednesday, surprising many.
The fallout in commodity markets was generally muted. Gold bounced 0.4 percent to $1,222.60 an ounce, having fallen 1 percent overnight to uncomfortably close to the year low at $1,211.80. Copper fell the most in nearly three weeks to be down 0.5 percent.
Oil prices took only a small hit, with investors perhaps encouraged by signs of a pick up in global growth.
Brent crude eased 23 cents at $109.40 a barrel. U.S. oil futures edged back 9 cents to $97.71 a barrel but are still up over a dollar on the week so far.
Source : Reuters


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