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Designer slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... United States of America! -Blues Brothers God bless the US of A indeed! After almost two months of skittishness, financial markets have seen the light of Big Ben's - and this little ben's interpretation - forward guidance on money policy. And this is ...

Peace, be still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... health of the labour market" and inflation remains low. With these words, Money Messiah Ben not only stilled financial markets' nerves but sent them singing and dancing hallelujah! Stock markets from New York to Rio and old London town went higher punctuated ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... contract was up 17 points at 4,858. In economic news on Wednesday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle is scheduled to attend the launch of the Funding Australia's Future Project hosted by the Australian Centre ...

Is that a fiscal stimulus I smell?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
Nothing to report today folks. It's one of those days in the financial markets that call for a hashtag instead. I still am a twit when it comes to twitting (or is it tweeting?) but thanks to my editor, the twit (or is it tweet?) would read something ...

The others

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... economy...and oh, they might also be pondering, "what would Kevin do...in the next two months or three?" While financial markets appear to have gone back to the old premise of the Fed taper issue - ie, Fed would taper only if growth becomes sustainable ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... from the head of the central People's Bank of China that it would "adjust" liquidity to ensure stability as financial markets suffer a credit squeeze. Tokyo climbed 3.51 per cent, or 463.77 points, to 13,677.32 on Friday and Hong Kong added 1.78 per ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... his policy stance and intended election date the more uncertainty we'll likely see generated across Australian financial markets." The banks are leading the way in early trade. ANZ is up 48 cents to $28.32, Commonwealth Bank has gained 78 cents to $68.07 ...

Once more from the top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... the absence of any significant news over the past 24 hours (except in Australia which we'll come to later), financial markets continued to bask in the afterglow of central banks' reassurances. More so after the People's Bank of China (PBOC) and the European ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... data while China's central bank said it had moved to ease a liquidity crisis that has gripped the country's financial markets. Traders breathed a sigh of relief after the People's Bank of China (PBoC) late on Tuesday said it had made money available ...

Paul Heath resigns as JBWere CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... an extraordinary group of colleagues and clients over an extraordinary period of time - for both the firm and financial markets." Heath began with JBWere in 1994 in its Perth office as an adviser. In 2006 he was appointed managing director of Private ...