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Research shows ethical investing at tipping point

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... according to Mercer." "Australian Ethical avoids coal as an ethical decision, but it also makes financial sense. Coal and oil prices are declining due to structural factors: China is reducing its coal use, Japan is diversifying its energy mix and developed ...

Market confidence marches in March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... green lights blinking brightly. Has the global outlook changed that much as the calendar turned to March? To be sure, oil prices are higher, lifting energy companies and the banks that lent to them. Still, if we're watching the data (as most central ...

A "must do" for the ECB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
... dramatic movements in oil price, but also other commodity prices... we look at second-round effects, namely whether low oil prices and low commodity prices do feed into other prices, and then that could generate exactly what we want to avoid, namely ...

A negative sum game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... Recently, however, global financial markets have been volatile against the backdrop of the further decline in crude oil prices and uncertainty such as over future developments in emerging and commodity-exporting economies, particularly the Chinese economy." ...

Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... has been supported by steady job gains and solid growth in real disposable income--aided in part by the declines in oil prices" underpinning "continued moderate expansion in the economy", notwithstanding the headwinds from "subdued foreign growth and ...

Deflation and China pose biggest risks: PIMCO

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... expectations for sideways growth - or around 2.25% to 2.75% - and an uptick in inflation globally. "If our base case view on oil prices ending 2016 around $50 per barrel is realised, we expect global inflation in 2016 to be in the 1.75%-2.25% range ...

US dollar downed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... after dropping by as much as 1.5% overnight - as the US dollar plunged - Bloomberg US dollar index down 1.6% -- and oil prices soared by around 7% (despite the Department of Energy's report that crude oil inventories in the week ended 29 January were ...

Down but upbeat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
... Thank heavens for 'Australia Day'! The holiday saved us, Australians all, from being whipsawed by the big swings in oil prices and on Wall Street. But there's even greater reason to remain optimistic - if not rejoice - for even before we downed our tools ...

Doom(ed) rebound?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... the week before that. It's a bounce from oversold conditions. It's short-covering. It's the stupendous 10% rebound in oil prices to above US$30 a barrel - looks like "money managers in the market conceded that matters had gone too far" even before hitting ...

Fed's plan slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... expectations do not operate in a vacuum. When the Fed met and decided to lift after their 15-16 FOMC meeting, crude oil prices were trading at around the mid-US$30 a barrel mark and Fed Yellen revealed to us (at the time) about her confidence that a ...