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Chief economist update: Blame and trim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
Trump blamed the Fed for last week's heightened volatility on Wall Street and I agreed that he was correct when he ranted that, "The Fed is going loco and there's no reason for them to do it." This is because - as I wrote last Friday - America's ...

Chief economist update: It wasn't me, it's the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
"The Fed is going wild. The problem in my opinion is Treasury and the Fed. The Fed is going loco and there's no reason for them to do it. I'm not happy about it." This was US president Donald Trump's take on the previous day's slump ...

Chief economist update: US bond yield jump made FTSE slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
The FTSE 100 index fell by 0.4% on September 13 - the day when the Bank of England (BOE) met and announced no change in monetary policy settings, keeping the bank rate at 0.75% (after the 25bps lift in August). While the BOE's move was widely expected ...

Chief economist update: That other Fed policy towards normalcy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
Latest data updates indicate that the US economic juggernaut continues to power on. The ISM non-manufacturing index shot up from 58.5 in August to a higher than expected 61.6 in September - its highest level on record. In addition, the ADP private sector ...

RBNZ on ice into 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
There were some moments so far in 2018 when it perked up against the US dollar but the path of least resistance has been a decline for the New Zealand dollar. The NZ dollar has dropped by 6.8% versus the greenback (to US$0.6628) this year to date and ...

Aussie fund managers face machine learning challenges

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
Australia's investment management firms lag behind Japan when it comes to using machine learning in investment strategies, a new Bloomberg survey shows. The poll of 450 participants comprising traders, portfolio managers, analysts and market data practitioners ...

Industry veterans join global commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
The chairman at a $6 billion Australian infrastructure fund and a former AIST chief executive are being welcomed as executives of a new global financial sector initiative which targets the end of modern slavery and human trafficking. Joining the newly-formed ...

Chief economist update: Confidence down, conditions up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
Et tu, Brute? The Australian version of the Shakespearean drama, Julius Caesar, that saw Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull politically assassinated (and replaced with the Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison) in the dying days of August may have played a ...

Chief economist update: Trump's beggar thy neighbour policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
Another month, another strong US labour market report. The time before US President Donald Trump would have had consumers, businesses and investors everywhere dancing in the streets and singing hallelujah. This is due to the rationale that the US economy's ...

Netwealth doubles market share

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
Nearing 12 months since listing on the Australian Securities Exchange, platform provider Netwealth progressed to reporting season with 35.9% income growth and a statutory net profit after tax of $20.8 million. Netwealth's platform revenue for FY18 was ...