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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... Australia, the market on Wednesday fell nearly two per cent, with a rapidly rising Australian dollar and profit taking by Japan-based foreign investors believed to be responsible. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 109.9 points, or 1.9 per cent, lower ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street finished mostly higher. At 0810 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 11 points at 5,937. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Financial ...

That elusive 6000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... upward pressure on the Australian dollar. It's now fetching US$0.7866 up from this year's low of US$0.7533. As the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the European Central Bank (ECB) and every other "accommodating" central bank would tell you, we don't want that. ...

Better to own or to rent investments?

JOHN DYALL  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... demand. A younger workforce is forming households, buying consumer goods, raising children and paying taxes. Both Germany and Japan are expected to see the greatest declines in their working-age populations. According to one study (Have Analytics) these ...

Steady with a chance of a surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
In three days time, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will again meet to talk about monetary policy. Chances are there's little chance of a change in policy settings. The BOJ board would decide to keep settings as they did at the 7-8 April gabfest -- key interest ...

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... and the US Federal Reserve is gearing up for its first rate rise since 2006. The firm says the central banks of Europe and Japan are pushing the monetary accelerator while commodities exporters such as Canada and Australia are cutting rates to cushion ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0654 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 27 points at 5,858. In the US, the Nasdaq index smashed its 15-year-old record Thursday ...

Overseas investors flocking to Australian bonds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... might be viewed as some signs that QE (quantitative easing) is working in Europe," Miller said. Signs that QE is working in Japan some QE motivators flowing from Europe are likely to "upset the calculus a bit in terms of the Aussie dollar," Miller said. ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... sovereigns. A complicating factor here is that the rise in US interest rates looks set to occur while the central banks of Japan and Europe are continuing an aggressive easing of monetary policy via balance sheet measures. The combined Japanese and European ...

Tempo finds beta growth in Europe, Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... under management. Bracken explained that initially the portfolio was "kind of conservative, we were invested in the US, Japan, the UK and Switzerland." But for the last two months "we have seen a real switch in strategy to now get into more aggressive ...