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Chief economist update: Fed flattens the yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... Reserve missive, one would think that Wall Street is against strong(er) growth. All major benchmark indices - DJIA, S&P 500, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 - closed lower after the Fed announced the widely-anticipated 25 basis point hike in the fed funds rate ...

NAB launches super virtual assistant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... Steel, is that it can actually carry out tasks for customers, rather than providing instructions on how they can be done. NASDAQ-listed Progress is helping develop industry-specific and self-learning chatbots for organisations in Australia and New Zealand ...

Chief economist update: The art of the deal exemplified

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... actions...and the trade war is on! But instead of diving US equities rose - the S&P 500 gained 0.5%; the Dow 0.4%; the Nasdaq 0.4%. Buy on news? Perhaps. It could be markets are hoping that Trump's other threat of more tariffs to come - i.e. "reciprocal ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news returns?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... inflation - in early February proved even worse than they expected. The Dow jumped by 1.0%, the S&P 500 index by 1.3% and the Nasdaq Composite by 1.9% the day the music should have died when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) confirmed that inflation ...

SuperConcepts enhances document management system

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... SMSF software and services provider said it consolidated a number of its applications to one platform with the help of NASDAQ-listed business application developer Progress. Groeneveld at the time said the partnership has enabled SuperConcepts to meet ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
... perfectly rational rationales behind the previous week's big one-day fall on Wall Street - DJIA down 2.5%; S&P 500 down 2.0%; Nasdaq down 2%; Russell 2000 down 2.1%. But if the current ructions on Wall Street continues, you can bet your bottom dollar ...

Lazard chief executive steps down

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... numerous roles in financial services for about 30 years, having entered the industry as a market surveillance analyst at NASDAQ in 1987. He was also director, head of international equities at State Super Financial Services (now StatePlus) and head of ...

Chief economist update: The spook on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... had tumbled, sold off and crushed overnight. The final tally showed the S&P 500 index down 1.1%; the Dow down 1.5%, the Nasdaq 0.9% and the Russell 2000 1%. The butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker all blamed the bond market as the yield on 10-year ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... 2.9% print. Certainly, this should put some doubt on Wall Street at the very least. Instead, the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq went on their merry record breaking ways. For sure it should, if Wall Street was investing for the December 2017 quarter ...

SuperConcepts ramps up digital transformation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... (SMSF) software and services provider announced it consolidated many of its applications to one platform with the help of NASDAQ-listed business application developer Progress. Chief technical officer Kurt Groeneveld said the partnership has enabled ...