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Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Move on people, nothing to see here today. Go away and enjoy a long lunch or plant a tree. This applies to equity markets seeking direction from overnight activity on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial index weaved and bobbed through intra-day trade ...

Forget Australia, head stateside for property yield

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
Forget about Australia's fast rising real estate sector, the next opportunity in that space could be in the United States, as all eyes turn to the timing of interest rate rises. Australia's love affair with property is "certainly greater than Australia's ...

Don't put all QE in the same basket: AXA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... impact in the real economy, Tinker said. But QE is not having an impact on the European economy yet. The European Central Bank (ECB) is "buying the long dated bonds. But institutions are not recycling that cash back into the real economy and that's one ...

Tug o' currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... "enough is enough and enough is too much". The euro has strengthened enough and it's become too much for the European Central Bank (ECB). Enter Executive Board member BenoA(R)t CoeurA(C) announcing that, "The Eurosystem is taking this [less market liquidity ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... LONDON - Europe's main stock markets have rallied after an ECB executive board member signalled that the Euro zone central bank would temporarily ramp up its stimulus program. The benchmark CAC 40 index of top companies in Paris soared 2.09 per cent ...

RBA minutes lift stock market

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... struck a chord this morning and got us off the canvas," Mr Le Brun said. In the minutes of the May board meeting, the central bank indicated that the lack of "any guidance on the future path of monetary policy" accompanying its May decision would not ...

Damned lies and (actual) stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... the Bank of Japan (BOJ) continues to repeat its optimistic assessment over the outlook of its economy. The Japanese central bank would meet again later this week. Although expectations are mounting that it would have to expand its QE one day, someday ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... of years. LONDON - Europe's equities have closed down, losing steam after an early rally on the back of European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi's vow to continue its stimulus program for "as long as needed" to stabilise prices. The mood of investors ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... economy, it's... It's this, it's that, it's blah, blah and blah. It was only last week when the head honcho of all central bank head honchos, Madam Janet, told the world that equity market valuations are presently "quite high", and what do we get? We ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... extended and, dare I say, a full-fledged rout. Perhaps, the Fed would find reasons to delay instead, just as the first central bank - the Bank of England (BOE) -- speculated to be the first off the rank to normalise policy did and has done again. Around ...