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Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... activity could turn into de-flation. To round up our biggest of the big - them who decide our monetary fortunes - we turn to Japan. The Markit/JMMA flash Japan manufacturing PMI increased to 51.1 in June. This is the first time in three months that manufacturing ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... Russia continuing to amass troops in the Ukrainian border (this is still on-going). Still on-going is Syria, China-Vietnam/Japan/Philippines/Malaysia tit for tats over a few pieces of rock floating on the ocean... and currently showing at a theatre near ...

NZ Super names new CIO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... since 2008 in the role of general manager, investments. Prior to that he was a head of financial sponsor coverage for non-Japan Asia at Credit Suisse, based in Hong Kong. Before that he was a director at First NZ Capital in New Zealand. NZ Super chief ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
Something's wrong - very wrong - with this picture. There's troubling news in the geo-political arena due to escalating tensions in Iraq. There's also the price of iron ore dropping to near two-year lows. And yet... the Australian dollar did a peek-a-boo ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... reversed morning losses following upbeat Chinese data. The US dollar and euro rose against the yen on Friday after the Bank of Japan said it would stand pat on its stimulus program despite fears over April's sales tax hike. Tokyo ended up 0.80 per cent ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... in recent history? We had lotsa lotsa "major geopolitical events" - September 11, North Korea nukes, Thailand coup, China-Japan/Malaysia/Vietnam/Philippines island dispute, Ukraine - yet the S&P 500 index continues to break records. But let's just concentrate ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... Street's record breaking streak came to an end, while Tokyo was hit by a stronger yen as investors looked ahead to a Bank of Japan policy meeting. Tokyo lost 0.64 per cent, or 95.95 points, to finish at 14,973.53 and Seoul eased 0.15 per cent, or 3.02 ...

Australia among the big guns in millionaire stakes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... Boston Consulting Group. Leading the charge in the millionaire stakes were the economic powerhouses of the US, China and Japan (the three largest economies by gross GDP respectively). Rounding out the top five were the UK and Switzerland. The other countries ...

The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... rate hikes (when they come) would come ever so slowly - the same script the Bank of England's (BOE) following. The Bank of Japan's (BOJ) still QE-ing a-plenty, and depending on how recently-lifted consumption tax affects consumer spending... could QE ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... effective exercise. Then again, the ECB couldn't do so without being branded a currency manipulator. The same reason why Japan had to go through with its own currency depreciation in a roundabout way.