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Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... September 2016, or medley of these measures - it'll be delivered when it is delivered on 3 December. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) did one better - it went and announced further policy easing Friday to commence the following day - ahead of Beijing's ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... orders fell at the fastest rate in over two-and-a-half years, with a number of panellists suggesting lower trade volumes with China was the main contributing factor behind the fall in exports. Consequently, both employment and buying activity decreased". ...

Pengana finding plenty to buy

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... amounts of cash if suitable investments can't be found. "I'm probably more bearish than most about the outlook in terms of China and US growth and these macro things. But gee we're finding things to buy. We're more fully invested than we've ever been," ...

China should have hardlanded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... with, it's falsified, it's a fabrication, it's embellished! As sure as night follows day, these howls of protest come when China reports growth numbers that are better-than-expectations. So it was when the National Statistics Office (NSO) revealed that ...

Future Fund issues return warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... starting to raise its interest rates off the zero bound. Adding to the uncertainty over the quarter was a series of events in China which raised doubts for many about how successfully the Chinese government will manage its transition to a more sustainable ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... to hold the decision for at least another month. The Fed's chair Janet Yellen voiced concerns about the volatility that China triggered in August and about global market instability more broadly. Ironically, the Fed's reluctance to raise rates is adding ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... Dudley commented overnight that, "The recent economic news suggests the economy is slowing and we have these developments in China and emerging market economies that could develop in a way that could come back to the hurt the economy and hold down US ...

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... announcement. Citi is 100% sure of a rate cut by February next year. The writing's been on the wall even before WBC's rate hike: China continues to slow - underscored by the latest worst-than-expected 20.4% drop in imports and lower than expected and ...

Big trouble in big China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Here we go again folks, the China is kaput story is back in the headlines again. What went up last week - some through to yesterday - are back down again all because, they say, financial markets didn't like what they saw in the China's trade data where ...

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... 2007, Germany's bourse fell into a bear market, commodity prices were dropkicked to a 16-year low - reportedly triggered by China's devaluation of the yuan just over a week before, seems like a distant memory now. "Horror Monday" (22 September) - the ...