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Just jokin' Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... Yanukovych, on military aid to protect Ukrainian citizens."A He was only joking, my friends. But what-e-va... financial markets liked what they heard - some might even be thanking President Putin for giving them good entry points into the market - and ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... -- in order to halt the ruble sell-off (down 1.8% overnight and 10% for the year versus the US dollar). The financial markets' reaction was hardly surprising - risk assets dropped and safe-haven ones rose. This could become more pronounced as tensions ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... is actually a declaration of war to my country". And so there we have folks a new geopolitical risk for the financial markets. Not because the Ukraine and Russia may be going to war... but because the West, the US in particular, is being dragged into ...

Bennelong WP creates CIO position

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... that Bennelong had been focusing on attaining a chief investment officer with a high level of experience in financial markets. "Not only does he have extensive financial markets experience, in particular in equities and fixed income, but he has deep ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... Exchange: 1988-SZ) said on Tuesday that they will provide a yuan settlement service to Australian and Chinese financial markets by mid-year, marking the latest step in the yuan's development as a global currency". One more time, "...marking the latest ...

SFG growth not affected by FoFA changes

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... Partners acquisition and its managing director Tony Fenning attributed the double-digit growth to an improvement in financial markets. Mosaic Portfolio Advisers, SFG managed investment schemes business, kept growing organically during the first half ...

G-20 goes for growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... needed to get our citizens back into jobs and meet their aspirations for development... Recent volatility in financial markets, high levels of public debt, continuing global imbalances and remaining vulnerabilities within some economies highlight that ...

(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... released numbers that are closest to everyone's hearts (errr, pockets) but you won't know it gauging from the financial markets' reaction. Australian equities rose a bit (plus 0.3% on the ASX 200), the yield on 10-year Aussie bonds skip a bit (plus 4 ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... less than two months before the government raises the consumption tax from 5% to 8% in April. But fear not... financial markets expect the BOJ to let its love flow soon.

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases labour force data for January. Reserve Bank Assistant Governor (Financial Markets) Guy Debelle will be a panel discussant at the CIFR Financial Market Developments Symposium. In equities news, Rio Tinto and ...