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IMF predicts drop in foreign earnings

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Australia can expect a drop in foreign earnings and a drag on growth this year according to the International Monetary Fund's most recent World Economic Outlook. The IMF said the downturn in the global commodity cycle is continuing to hit Australia's ...

Europe and Japan becoming preferred equity markets

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... both of these markets are affected by a mixture of currency strength, low commodity prices and - looking ahead - some monetary tightening." Credit Suisse global equity strategist Andrew Garthwaite expressed similar views in the company's Core Views report ...

Fund manager insists active approach not broken

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... multiple expansions without supporting economic or earnings growth. But there are signs that because the extraordinary monetary policy has ended, the market has returned to its fundamentals. "Only in the last four months of 2014, as QE3 came to an end ...

Even simple funds pose risks: IMF

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... simple investment funds, including long only mutual funds, can pose financial stability risks, warns the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The international body's recent update to its Global Financial Stability Report offered five policy messages about ...

The first is always the best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... Monsieur Dudley's comforting words - ones that reiterate the Fed head honcho's (honcha?) statement at "The New Normal Monetary Policy" research conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco last month when she discussed the whys and ...

ASIC to investigate AUD spike

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... to the public. "ASIC confirms it will investigate a spike in the Australian dollar shortly before the Reserve Bank's monetary policy decision today," ASIC's statement said. "The investigation will look at trading in the dollar prior to the RBA's interest ...

Digital currency continues to be monitored: RBA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
The Reserve Bank of Australia believes digital currencies do not currently raise issues for them in terms of monetary policy and financial stability mandates. The RBA recently addressed a Senate Economics References Committee inquiry about digital currency ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... big miners making the strongest gains. Comments from People's Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan suggesting further monetary policy easing boosted Wall Street, which saw the local market firm by more than one per cent, City Index senior market analyst ...

2015: a lift year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... wrong" - can stop it now. This, as much, was what Fed chair Janet L. Yellen told you, I and Irene at the "The New Normal Monetary Policy" research conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco when she discussed the whys and wherefores ...

From the mouths of Feds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... 2016." Thursday, 26 March: St Louis Fed pres James Bullard in Frankfurt: "Now may be a good time to begin normalizing U.S. monetary policy so that it is set appropriately for an improving economy over the next two years... Even with some normalization ...