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Brexit endangers EU asset manager passport

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... on regional headquarters in London to access the European Union - essentially 28 countries - hangs in the balance once Brexit is finalised. Statistics from the Financial Conduct Authority show about 5500 companies in the UK hold outbound passports to ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... therefore, "ultimately temporary". True that. To date, Sterling's effective exchange rate remains 11.6% below prior to the Brexit referendum last 23 June 2016, but it had recovered by 4.8% from its post-Brexit lows. In addition, despite low levels of ...

A year on from Brexit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
It's been 12 months since the Brexit referendum, and Natixis Global Asset Management says the outlook for Brexit has become even more unclear, with Theresa May's failed election manoeuver further muddying the water. Natixis' chief market strategist ...

May the force's not with her

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
... turned out to be a slide at the polls for the Conservatives instead. The British prime minister intended to secure her Brexit mandate when she announced the elections on the 18th of April, because "The country is coming together but Westminster is not. ...

Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... change the indications we've given". True that. Despite the political uncertainties, the terrorists' threats and assaults, Brexit uncertainty and might I mention Greece (which again failed to secure the latest €7 billion tranche of bailout funds from ...

Macron won't stop populist tide: William Blair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
... and generate the exact kind of uncertainty markets hate and run away from." A perfect example of this, he added, was the Brexit vote last year: "In a scenario like that, it helps you to determine whether that uncertainty will help a particular price ...

No 'Plan B' for Brexit "twist and turns"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... keep the Bank Rate where it was since August 2016, when it was lowered from 0.5% to 0.25% to contain the fallout from the 'Brexit' vote of the previous month - a decision that's become supportive of the on-going resilience of the British economy to Brexit ...

Australia can benefit from Brexit and Trump

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) shows Australian investors concerned with trade barriers resulting from Brexit and the Trump administration should focus on countries such as China and India where economic growth opportunities are ...

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... since, despite heightened geopolitical and economic uncertainties - Syria, North Korea, Russia and French elections and Brexit. And more, the US central bank's even considering upside risks to its rosy projections because of Trump's reflationary policies ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... re-negotiate France's status in the EU and to hold a referendum on reintroducing the Franc. (Bloomberg). She's Trump and Brexit put together. Certainly, the best outcome for financial markets is for a Macron win on the 7 May as this would preserve the ...