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Market lower as Wall Street falls

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... buyers, surged 17.6 per cent. Time Warner Cable pushed 3.4 per cent higher on renewed speculation it could be acquired. Reuters reported Friday that French telecom giant Altice was in talks with banks to raise debt for a bid. LONDON - Europe's main stock ...

Next stop: US payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... and it would be September. Not so, according to the handful of "masters" - yes masters, as in masters of the universe -- Reuters was able scooped for an interview at the annual giant hedge fund Skybridge Alternatives Conference - SALT - held in Las Vegas. ...

Cheap talk, cheaper money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... willing to pay for the privilege of lending money - as in the case of Switzerland - there's more than plenty. According to Reuters, "The Swiss Federal Treasury said it sold 232.501 million Swiss francs ($242 million) of bonds maturing in July 2025 at ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... fear, a slowdown in China" because the economy is moving to a "slower, but safer and more sustainable growth path"." (Reuters) You know the one, that meme about rebalancing away from exports and investments into domestic consumption. However, the slump ...

Go south young (China) man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... valued, Chinese investors have little other choice but to head south... at least until the arbitrage gap is closed. But as Reuters reports, "Hong Kong shares trading at discounts between 30 to 90 percent to their mainland peers". That's a big, big arbitrage ...

The first is always the best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... rate increase until the second half of 2016". And then there's NY Fed president William Dudley's recent interview with Reuters where he said that, "I could imagine circumstances where a June rate hike is still in play. If the next jobs report is strong... ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... pasted into my Word document) released overnight. It's no longer there - nada, zilch, kaput, MIA. And that "patient panic" Reuters talked about last Friday the 13th turned out to be a "patient party" instead. While there was certainly no panic, anxiety ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... 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 last Friday the 13th. To be pedantic, there might be some ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... missed target 7.4% GDP growth in 2014 headlines that prompted the PBOC to act. But nah, an exclusive report published by Reuters on 28 January tells of PM Li now liking 7% growth. He's set to announce this "at the annual parliament session in March ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... that ended with CB assurances. This week we find that the ECB has started buying covered bonds and could even do more. Reuters reported that, "The European Central Bank is considering buying corporate bonds on the secondary market and may decide on the ...