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Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... the ECB and BOJ are currently doing with their QE's and in case you missed it, the BOE continues to maintain its asset purchase ceiling at A£75 billion and the Fed's still re-investing the proceeds of its maturing securities - lift off or not. And those ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... 1.7%, stronger at $80.54 as it continued its expansion activity, participating in the $US2.1 billion ($2.73 billion) purchase of US group's Apache's Australian oil and gas assets.

Fintechs issued AFSL warning

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... that's likely to be a financial service. Any information that is an opinion that could influence a person's decision to purchase the product can be a problem if the business does not have its licensing in order." Wivell Plater said Fintech businesses ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... referenced an opinion piece in the AFR which said the IFM Global Infrastructure Fund's winning bid of $7.45 billion to purchase the Indiana Toll Road may have exceeded the next highest bid by $1 billion. "Institutions know they are over-paying but they ...

RBA rate cut: earlier and more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
What a difference a week makes. Looks like it's gonna happen in May with a slight chance of April was what I typed on this space seven days ago. Yes Virginia, 'twas about the when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would next cut the official cash ...

Rebalancing almost leads to accidental takeover bid

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
A quarterly rebalancing of indices was blamed for BlackRock accidentally purchasing more than 20% of Monadelphous Group recently. In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange on March 25, BlackRock said a change in interests held by the company ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
"If you build it, they will come." Reports have it that China's fresh steps to strengthen its weakening housing market - by lowering down-payments, reducing taxes and easing restrictions on the use of retirement savings for home purchases - and expectations ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... policy - since he assumed his position as BOE Governor back on 1 July 2013. The Bank Rate remains at 0.5% and the asset purchase ceiling at A£375 billion to this day. Yet the UK's economy, which was threatening to double dip just before Carney moved ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
Whoopsie, I just got caught sleeping behind the wheels (er, keyboard). I just found out that there's now a term for the current "patient"-induced volatility in the financial markets. Reuters called (past tense) it "patient panic" in its published article ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... more. Even to negative. Oh yes, Virginia. Because the ECB said so in the details of its QE programme - that it "will purchase debt with negative yields, so long as those yields are not below the ECB deposit rate at time of purchase. The ECB deposit rate ...