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Confidence slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... from the latest NAB Business Survey report. The NAB's business conditions index soared by points to a reading of +14 in March, more than reversing the 3-point decline in the previous month. This is the highest reading since the GFC (+15 on January 2008 ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... tapering/stopping of reinvestment or both. This despite the latest payrolls report that showed employment grew by just 98,000 in March. This is much less than market expectations for a 180K gain and is the lowest jobs addition since May last year. However ...

Hunter Hall LIC chair ousted

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
... retorted that she lives in London and thus was unavailable.) He also argued, as he suggested to Financial Standard back in March, that Wilson's call for an equal-access buyback was a ploy to take control of HHV "without paying for it." Ultimately, though ...

The challenging nature of ethics

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
... dealing with this issue," Payne said. Currently, about 40% of superannuation funds are tobacco-free and AMP announced in March that it would be divesting from tobacco and a number of other unethical investments under a new ESG framework. Financial Standard ...

Citi appoints government affairs head

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... Treasury economist and principal policy analyst at Treasury and Finance Tasmania. Bond's appointment follows the news in March that Citi was expanding its wealth management team with four new hires. Danica Hampton joined as head of investment specialists ...

Too much ado about Fed reinvesting nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... good. While both the Markit and ISM surveys of the US non-manufacturing sector came in lower than market expectations in March, they remained well-above the 50-line indicating expansion. More significant, the ADP private payrolls report showed businesses ...

Brexit-proof?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
A small dip in the Markit/CIPS UK manufacturing PMI to 54.2 in March from 54.5 in the previous month provides further evidence of the economy's resilience to Brexit uncertainty. The latest reading might be the lowest level in four months but it's also ...

China manufacturing expansion gains and slows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
China's official manufacturing PMI measure showed the index improving for the second straight month to 51.8 in March and the eight consecutive month that the index had been above the 50 expansion/contraction line. This is better than market expectations ...

ECB nips the bud of rate hike speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... January this year, it remains above the 8% average that prevailed in the years before the GFC (and an all-time low of 7.2% in March 2008). As for inflation, in the Q&A portion of the 9 March meeting, Mario Draghi stated that, rising headline inflation ...

Paragon hires distribution head from Challenger

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... companies. The fund is available to both wholesale and retail investors and has returned 66.7% net of fees since inception in March 2013, compared to the 33.5% returned by the All Ordinaries Accumulation Index.