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Inflated attention on September US CPI inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
Heading into last weekend, financial headlines abound over the latest update on US consumer price inflation. Financial market participants keenly awaited its release for clues on future Fed monetary policy direction...or so the headlines say. I say ...

Job openings in America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017
It lags the US non-farm payrolls report but the US JOLTS (job openings and labor turnover summary) a handy check on the state of the US labour market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics'(BLS) latest update showed little change in August from July: job openings ...

FS Live Blog: 2017 AFA National Adviser Conference

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
Check out this blog to get an hourly update on the latest announcements, session highlights and social media commentary live at the AFA 2017 National Adviser Conference. 10.30pm - AFA caps its annual conference with an awards gala ceremony for the 2017 ...

India's upside risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
Perhaps the Reserve Bank of India was just following its former colonial master. For similar to the Bank of England (BOE) - it cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 0.25% in August 2016 to head off the potential negative fall-out from Brexit win ...

Proceedings filed against CBA in Federal Court

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
Funding for the shareholder class action against the Commonwealth Bank is now unconditional and proceedings have been filed in the Federal Court, marking the beginning of one of the largest shareholder class actions in Australian history. IMF Bentham ...

No more slack?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
It was the surprise that wasn't. US non-farm payrolls declined by 33,000 in September and it followed an upwardly revised 169,000 gain (from +156,000) in the previous month. Sure the extent of the fall was less than market consensus for a 100,000 addition ...

Interim chief executive leaves listed advice firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
The acting chief executive of a listed financial services group will depart at the end of the year. In a statement to the ASX, Spring Financial Group announced that it has accepted the resignation of its chief operating officer and head of advice Frank ...

Time to start factoring in an RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
Forget about the ANZ and NAB's call for the RBA to remove at least the "emergency accommodation" that brought the official cash rate to a record low of 1.5%. If the recent trend in Australian consumer spending - or in this case, not spending - continues ...

Profit margin squeeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
They might be expanding at a slower rate but they're still expanding. The Australian Industry Group's (AiG) performance of manufacturing and services indices both slowed in September from August but remained above the 50 expansion/contraction line. ...

Interest rates on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
It was a ho-hum event, the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) 3 October board meeting, that is. The Australian central bank kept interest rates unchanged as widely expected. This takes to 14 the number of months the RBA has kept the official interest ...