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Mother's Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... unemployment rate, average weekly earnings, etc. - beat or disappoint market expectations. So what is the market expecting? A Reuters' survey show consensus expectations are for a 180K addition in employment and a 5.1% unemployment rate in October. "The ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... September quarter from 15 in the previous three-month period. No, Japan's economy is not improving. Yet, according to Reuters, Japan Exchange Group data showed that, "Foreigners bought a net 210.3 billion yen ($1.77 billion) worth of Japanese cash stocks ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... more." A reason echoed by OECD chief economist Catherine Mann six days later - I repeat, six days later - when she told Reuters that, ""Raising interest rates now would remove uncertainty in the markets". Goes to show that Janet doesn't give a hoo-ha ...

Future Super launches fossil free index

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... listed companies considered to be fossil fuel free and sustainably sound have been given a helping hand. Today Thomson Reuters and Future Super have launched two indices aiming to serve growing demand for ethical investment as investors see potential ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... performing asset class for the year to 13 July 2015. They returned 19.9% over the year, according to data from Thomson Reuters quoted by the BlackRock Investment Institute. However, Chinese mainland shares have experienced sharp falls that have led the ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... Castparts' scripts - reviving market focus on M&A deals. Gotta get in before funding costs become more expensive. As per Reuters, "With US interest rates near zero for nearly a decade, debt has been cheap. But with the Federal Reserve widely expected ...

Water, water everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... Interest rate expectations were pushed back to mid-2016 from early 2016 (or even late this year) because, according to Reuters, "just one of its nine policymakers - Ian McCafferty - had voted for a rate hike at their August meeting... Most economists ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... cent for January 2016". However, the pick-up in economic growth in the March quarter - a sharp one at that - is, to quote Reuters, "at odds with other indicators such as industrial production, trade and tax collection figures, which suggest the economy ...

Reading too much out of nothing at all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... of labor conditions since its last policy meeting in June, when it said labor slack had "diminished somewhat."" This is Reuters talkin' 'bout the change in the Fed's language to "On balance, a range of labor market indicators suggest that underutilization ...

Chinese whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... "market stabilising" QEs before it, you don't take away the drip when the patient's still in the emergency ward. In fact, as Reuters reports, "China said on Monday it was prepared to buy shares to stabilize the stock market and avert "systemic risks" ...