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RBA rate cut: earlier and more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... if not for the booming property market. The RBA's Financial Stability Review (published last week) underscored the central bank's concern, "The composition of new mortgage finance remains skewed to investors, however, particularly in the largest cities. ...

Smart beta, fixed income ETFs surge

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... all receiving flows. The popularity of currency hedged funds, Manchanda added, is being driven by unconventional central bank policies and institutions recognising that ETFs are a cheap and efficient way to express currency positions quickly in a single ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
The Australian share market has opened higher as the bourse flirts with breaking the 6,000 point landmark for the first time in seven years. Australian stocks received positive leads from the US and European markets which gained on Friday night as low ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... guidance" reminded me of the man who brought it first to central banks' lexicon - Bank of England's (BOE) Canadian central bank import, Mark Carney. Mark Carney has not lifted a finger - no alteration in monetary policy - since he assumed his position ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... around 2.20 reals per US dollar despite the BCB raising its benchmark target SELIC rate five times since April. The central bank has steadily lifted interest rates since the SELIC rate bottomed at 7.25% in March 2013. It raised its target rate again ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... Bank interest rate cut. Early gains of 1.3 per cent followed a strong session on Wall Street overnight, as the US central bank's Federal Open Market Committee said the labour market needed to improve before it raised the federal funds rate. The Australian ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up 27 points at 5,880. In its post-meeting statement, the US central bank's Federal Open Market Committee said the labour market needed to improve before it raised the federal funds rate. In ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... or July or August or September this year or January 2016. It doesn't matter. What matters is it will be the first central bank to do so. That's all that matters. We're currently looking at what this divergent US central bank policy vs. "others" is doing ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... The market opened higher after a strong session on Wall Street, sparked by a fall in the US dollar ahead of the US central bank's policy meeting, and maintained its gains after the Reserve Bank of Australia indicated it will consider a rate cut in coming ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... Germany's leading stock market index smashed through the psychologically important level, one week after the European Central Bank began its 1.14-trillion-euro ($A1.58 trillion) bond-buying stimulus. Frankfurt's benchmark DAX 30 soared 2.24 per cent ...