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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 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... weakness in the world's number two economy - following soft trade and inflation data last week - and come days after the central bank at the weekend cut interest rates again for the third time since November. WELLINGTON - The prospect of lower interest ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... the coming months, including around another 2 billion euros to the IMF and nearly 7 billion euros to the European Central Bank. HONG KONG - Asian markets closed mostly higher on Monday after a healthy US jobs report last week. Investor sentiment was ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... picking up - iron ore's up 1.2%, oil's up 0.9% and copper's up 0.2%. This, because the PBOC did it again. The Chinese central bank announced a 25 bps reduction in its benchmark one-year lending rate to 5.1% over the Mother's Day weekend that would become ...

Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
If even a dog can have his day, why not bears? Can't blame 'em Virginia, it's May after all - that month of the year when you, I and Irene are supposed to "sell and go away". But, but... but it may be more than the seasonality this May that's' taking ...

Falling cash rate puts gold in 'sweet spot'

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... sweet spot for gold," ABC Bullion chief economist Jordan Eliseo said. The World Gold Council revealed that in 2014 central bank gold purchases hit nearly 500 tones. "In the last 50 years, only once have central banks bought more gold than they did last ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... getting wrong-footed three for three, expert guessers finally got their RBA rate cut calls correctly - the Australian central bank gave in and delivered a 25 basis point reduction, taking the official cash rate to a new record low 2.0% -- but I bet my ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... which reports earnings on Wednesday. LONDON - Eurozone stocks have tumbled on fears of an early end to the European Central Bank's economic stimulus program and a spike in tensions over the Greek crisis. Frankfurt's DAX 30 index tumbled 2.51 per cent ...

May cut, may not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... then to 73% thereafter. Looking at the Australian economic indicators that have been released since the Australian central bank's April meeting, nothing much has changed. Au contraire, some have even improved - unemployment rate, retail spending, business ...

Pubs satisfying BlackRock income thirst

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... likely to be on hold until the US Federal Reserve moves. On a global scale Thiel said growth and inflation are causing central bank monetary policies to diverge and so far this year most central bank action has been on the easing side. He said lower ...