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Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Talk about being careful... for they might come true. 'Twas not so long ago that Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) and the IMF worried about complacency in the financial markets as indicated by low, down on the ground ...

Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... seceding' vote to win. So what's the point of wasting bits and bytes on it? We've gone full circle to speculating when the Bank of England (BOE) would raise interest rates in the United Kingdom (yup, that includes Scotland). Last week there was China ...

Former Macquarie exec to head IRESS division

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... retail participants, representing professional and private end users. IRESS operates in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom. Announcing the appointment today, Walsh said the new role would be focused on growing ...

FEATURE: The alpha hunters

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... basic resources. In the US S&P 500, financials make up 16.5%, while in the S&P Europe 350 index, financials make up 21.9%. Canada's TSX Composite index is one of the closest to Australia's, with 34.1% financials, 25.2% energy, and 12.7% materials. While ...

Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... lights flashing on the screens of most major equity markets overnight. Not even next door neighbour - the European Central Bank (ECB) - is perturbed. It voted to keep interest rates unchanged overnight. According to ECB President Mario Draghi, "When ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... at the Russian stock market's 11% drop overnight or the impact on Russia's already slowing economy of the Russian Central Bank's decision to lift interest rates by 150 bps to 7% -- in order to halt the ruble sell-off (down 1.8% overnight and 10% for ...

G-20 goes for growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... the grouping put on paper an explicit growth target. For two, three of the world's biggest central banks - the Fed and the Bank of England (BOE) - were already acting to ensure growth is assured even before the pledge by guiding forward expectations ...

GPT Group bows out of CPA bidding war

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... the backing last month of the Commonwealth Managed Investments Ltd's (CMIL's) independent directors and the Commonwealth Bank, which will receive $41 million for the trust's the management rights. Dexus Funds Management and CPPIB today lodged a change ...

Governor Carney is no monkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013

Move the goalpost Mark

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... triple drat!" -Dick Dastardly (Wacky Races) Sir Mervyn King must be ruing the day that he finished his term as governor of the Bank of England (BOE) only less than five months ago (June). Now it's a non-Briton who'll be given the credit for all the wonderful ...