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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... points. The broader All Ordinaries index was down 20 points, or 0.36 per cent, at 5,485 points. NEW YORK - US stocks finished little changed following mixed economic data as markets paused after last week's records. The Dow Jones Industrial Average stood ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
Perhaps they cheated and have had a little peep at the data, but last night's advance estimate of US third quarter real GDP growth confirmed the Fed's positive outlook on the economy and gave meat to its decision to end its quantitative easing programme. ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
QE is dead! Long live QE! Well that went well, didn't it Virginia? The death of QE3 caused little stir in the financial markets - the S&P 500 index lost a teenie-weenie 0.1%; yields on 10-year US Treasuries increased by a small 0.02 percentage point ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... timetable of an increase well into 2015. The Fed's policy statement cited improving labour market conditions and expressed little concern about low inflation, elements that led some analysts to characterise it as more hawkish than expected. LONDON - ...

ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... the banks that got an "F" - led by Italy's Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena whose share price fell by 22% -- it created little and temporary ripples. In one word, ho-hum or would you prefer... zzzz. Perhaps this is because the AQR results were not far ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... The broader All Ordinaries index was up 42.6 points, or 0.79 per cent, at 5,441.9. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks finished little changed as the market absorbed losses in petroleum stocks while looking ahead to a two-day US Federal Reserve monetary policy ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... prices. HONG KONG - Asian markets have slipped on profit-taking following the previous day's hefty gains while there was little positive reaction after a closely watched indicator showed a slight pick-up in Chinese manufacturing activity. The US dollar ...

Active management offers little value: Towers Watson

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
Institutional investors are getting little value from active management and must focus on total returns to remain competitive, according to Towers Watson global head of investment Chris Ford. Speaking at the 2014 Towers Watson Ideas Exchange in Melbourne ...

Mercer to launch longevity insurance solution

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... which it says will "address longevity risk in a way that has never been offered in Australia before." While Mercer gave little away about the product, Financial Standard understands that it will be something akin to a 'group self-annuitisation' product ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
All is clear again on the Wall Street front. Central bank assurances have silenced the Johnny Littles wailing that the sky is falling. We could only imagine now what would have happened to equity markets and in turn to sentiment and then the economies ...