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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 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower following losses on Wall Street overnight. At 0720 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down six points at 5,938. US stocks finished a touch lower after a mixed round of company ...

Liquidnet increases average trade size in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... The business had a record first quarter in the overall Asia Pacific region, as trading activity increased, particularly in Japan. Principal traded climbed to US$6.8 billion in the region, which represents a 50% increase on the previous quarter and 17% ...

Now for Australia's debt surge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... better - fiscal account than the US (projected to be 82.1% five years from now) or Germany (37.1%) or the UK (74.7%) or Japan (138.7%). In terms of groupings, based on the IMF's projections Australia's net debt to GDP five years from now would be much ...

IMF predicts drop in foreign earnings

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... narrow categories of the consumer basket. However, in economies in which output gaps are currently negative (Australia, Japan, Korea, Thailand), policymakers may need to act to prevent a persistent decline in inflation expectations," the IMF outlook ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... trouble too and Asia and commodities and commodity exporting countries and China's main trading partners - South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, US, Australia, Germany. Not so according to the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department division chief, Steven Bartnett ...