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Better than good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
Up, up, markets are up. Over the past 24 hours, like any other 24 hours, financial markets were treated to a mix of stats/surveys/news that were either better, worse or in line with their expectations. We've gotten all possible combinations and permutations ...

ASX calls for Australia-based exchanges

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... has called for the Financial Services Inquiry to explore introducing requirements for systemically important financial markets infrastructure assets to be placed on-shore. This would grant Australia's policy makers and regulators direct control over ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... end-of-quarter window dressings, this first day of the trading week should offer few surprises. It'll be a week when financial markets play the waiting game. Investors' attention would be on what the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the European Central ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... is that Ukraine is pulling its soldiers out of Crimea. Yup, it effectively ceded Crimea to Russia... and the financial markets simply ignored this. Nothing left but to enjoy our weekend folks... and oh, back to US data watching and not only the unemployment ...

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... data - including "readings on financial developments" - tell them it's safe to do so, what's wrong with that? Financial markets can't forever get high on Fed supply.

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... Crimea might still be dominating the headlines but apart from last week's palpitations and that on 3 March, financial markets appear so over it. Just as the day after rebound after the March 3 sell-off, financial markets recovered again - big time - ...

Pickle wrapped in a bind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... this would be certainly vetoed by China. Real dill pickle wrapped in a bind! This, in a way, is good news for financial markets. This is because it prevents an escalation of geo-political risk and thus, prevents the Russia-Ukraine-West tension from spilling ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... would be repaid. The take-away here is that China's slowly (but surely) carrying out its plan to liberalise its financial markets and capital account and further open up the Chinese economy to free market dynamics.

Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... affair and no longer geo-political (unless of course, the G7 continues to go after Putin - it's their move). Financial markets don't care anymore - the risk has been contained within Ukraine (again unless the G7 continues to go after Putin) - as evidenced ...

Chinese currency reforms to transform bond benchmarks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... agreement between ASX Group and Bank of China to deliver renminbi settlement services to the Australian and Chinese financial markets was an important step in this regard. The Reserve Bank of Australia has already entered into a bilateral currency swap ...