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Fed will lift later this year if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... markets and perhaps even inadvertently push the economy into recession. In addition, continuing to hold short-term interest rates near zero well after real activity has returned to normal and headwinds have faded could encourage excessive leverage and ...

The case for super investing in agriculture

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
Low interest rates and proximity to Asia's rising middle class are partly reasons for Australian superannuation funds to be investing in the country's agriculture industry. Yet recent research commissioned by BDO and conducted by The University of Queensland ...

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... much has been said - for or against - the Fed's focus on "international developments" as rationale for not lifting interest rates this month, there could be another reason why it didn't... and it's much closer to home....and it's name is shutdown. Yes ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... 1.4%; the Russell 2000 by 1.5%. This is hardly surprising Virginia, the Fed was damned that it's going to do lift interest rates and now... damned that it didn't. The Australian Financial Review (AFR) this morning quoted director of research and senior ...

Expect slow "boil" Fed hikes: Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... put a wager on it - and I hate betting - that the US economy will actually pick up speed after they start hiking interest rates. The reason I say that is because there are $10 trillion worth of deposits in America that for seven years have been bearing ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... which side of the fence one sits - to more of the same. The US Federal Reserve decided to do nothing and leave interest rates where they were since 16 December 2008, at 0-0.25%. It's you, not me. Not America: "On balance, labor market indicators show ...

Government debt is not bad: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
The federal government should be borrowing "with its ears pinned back" to exploit low interest rates and stimulate growth rather than starving the economy of capital to establish nation building projects. Addressing an investment forum in Sydney yesterday ...

The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... in this range since 16 December 2008 - almost seven years - and more than nine years since the Fed last raised interest rates (from 5.0% to 5.25% in June 2006). Would the Fed go? Here's the Fed forward guidance when it last met in July: "The Committee ...

VicSuper awards $100m corporate bonds mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... we believe that the economic conditions, both in Australia and globally will inevitably lead to the RBA raising interest rates in the medium term," VicSuper chief investment officer Oscar Fabian said. "However uncertainty surrounds the timing and extent ...

So bad it could only be good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... is, the PBOC and/or the Politburo are expected to give more stimuli. The Chinese central bank has already slashed interest rates five times from 6% in October 2014 to 4.6% last month. With inflation far below its 2015 inflation target of 4.0% -- headline ...