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The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... FOMC statement has gotten less perverse while we slept - the VIX index rose, so did the US dollar and US bond yields; US equities and commodity prices fell. This is because no matter how you slice, dice, chop or spin it - throw in Madame Janet's "not ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... the yield on 10-year US Treasuries dropped by 13 bps to 1.92% and the yield on 2-years declined by 12 bps to 0.55%. US equities rallied: The S&P 500 gained 1.3%; the Dow rose by 1.3%; the Nasdaq's up 0.9% and the Russell 2000 increased by 0.8%. So did ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... to new heights. Or is this time different? The "taper tantrum" of mid-2013 sent yields on 10-year US Treasuries up, US equities lower and the VIX index rising... and then the tantrum tapered. Financial markets learned to live with it. Yields on 10-year ...

"Patient" is the (key)word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... that crude oil prices went for another leg down. What ever happened to the headlines of not so long ago that went, "US equities sell off as oil prices tumbles" or something like that? Last night's numbers show both WTI and Brent oil prices dropping by ...

FEATURE: How ETFs are changing adviser asset allocation thinking

LAURA MILLAN, ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... this stage, the most popular ETFs tend to either provide significant exposure to international equities (particularly US equities), Australian high-yield equities (which provide income as capital growth has slowed) or high-interest cash (to balance risk) ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... Street's performance on the day the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the jobs numbers. They all fell down - US equities, that is. The S&P 500, down 1.4%; the Dow, down 1.5%; the Nasdaq, down 1.1%; and the Russell 2000, down 1.4%. They all jumped ...

BetaShares launches ASX-listed ETF for US equities

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
BetaShares has launched a US equities exchange traded fund (ETF) that will trade on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The fund is the first of its kind in Australia and it aims to provide an investment return that tracks the performance of the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... 5,526.6 points. The broader All Ordinaries index rose 47.9 points, or 0.88 per cent, to 5,505.0 points. NEW YORK - US equities have powered to fresh records after the Bank of Japan's surprise stimulus ignited a rally on global stock exchanges. The Dow ...

BetaShares' UMAX receives recommended rating

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... income fund, the BetaShares Australian Top 20 Equity Yield Maximiser Fund (YMAX). "UMAX offers investors exposure to US equities along with the potential for higher yield, a combination that is of growing interest among advisers and investors," Vynokur ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... consumer confidence. The US consumer confidence index has leapt from 89.0 in September to 94.5 in October, giving US equities a solid boost overnight. The positive sentiment had flowed through to the Australian market, CommSec market analyst Steven Daghlian ...