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Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... trading activity. It wasn't only I, the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) even printed that, "The ASX SPI 200 futures index predict the benchmark index will lift 43 points to 5645 points when trading resumes on Monday morning". Well, the SMH and I were correct. ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
A disappointing quarterly result from the Commonwealth Bank is weighing down the broader share market. The share price of Australia's biggest listed company plummeted by $2.99, or 3.39 per cent, to $85.15, after it post a flat $2.2 billion cash profit ...

May cut, may not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... lower 2.0% following its May Board meeting tomorrow heats up. Bloomberg's latest survey says... 24 out of 28 economists predict that we'll see a rate cut, hear a rate cut and speak about the rate cut come 230PM tomorrow (Australian eastern standard time). ...

No inflation but no growth either: Janus Capital

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
The great quantitative easing experiment has escaped the high levels of inflation that many experts predicted it would bring, but it has also failed to bring much growth, says Janus Capital chief investment officer of equities and asset allocation Enrique ...

PIMCO sees opportunity in EU bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
Low bond yields in Europe could be a buying opportunity even if the situation in Greece adds volatility to the market, PIMCO chief investment officer of asset allocation and real return Mihir Worah said. Worah presented PIMCO's long term outlook and ...

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
The outlook for capital expenditure adding to Australia's GDP from anywhere outside of mining is "abysmal" according to BlackRock investment strategist and head of fixed income, Steve Miller. At a recent media briefing detailing BlackRock's global investment ...

Overseas investors flocking to Australian bonds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
BlackRock is seeing massive flows from Japanese clients into Aussie dollar bond funds as a result of quantitative easing in the Asian country. Investment strategist and head of fixed income, Steve Miller, told a briefing recently the flows in to Aussie ...

IMF predicts drop in foreign earnings

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Australia can expect a drop in foreign earnings and a drag on growth this year according to the International Monetary Fund's most recent World Economic Outlook. The IMF said the downturn in the global commodity cycle is continuing to hit Australia's ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
Crrr-unch! That's the sound of China's trade numbers collapsing. And it was a thunderous thud, Virginia. The country's trade surplus shrank to US$3.08 billion in March from $60.6 bil in February and expectations for a US$40 bil print. With imports dropping ...

China slowdown will hit Australia

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
A Chinese economic slowdown will hit Australia as iron ore prices tumble, the World Bank says. The bank noted that Australia's growth pace had deteriorated sharply since the first quarter of 2014 as declining prices for key export commodities depressed ...