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Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... announced it's bringing back production to 3 million bpd - the production level before sanctions were imposed, sending oil prices down to fresh 12-year lows - WTI oil down 1.8% to US$29.42/barrel and Brent oil down 1.9% to US$28.94/barrel. The US Energy ...

Hedge funds suffer worst year since 2011

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... hedge fund strategies posted the worst returns in December, down 4.48% for the month following the steep downturn in oil prices and the consequent double-digit losses in Russian equities.

Four steps up, four steps down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... percent target range, mainly due to the earlier strength in the New Zealand dollar and the 65 percent fall in world oil prices since mid-2014." This last point - the one re inflation - appears to be the most significant factor underlying the RBNZ's monetary ...

Oil slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) decision at their meeting in Vienna last Friday - the decision that sent oil prices down to 6-year lows. WTI oil dropped by 5.8% to US$37.65 per barrel and the price of Brent oil slipped by 5.3% to US$40.73 ...

December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... shared the view that (1) as the underlying trend in inflation steadily rose and the effects of the decline in crude oil prices dissipated, the year-on-year rate of change in the CPI was likely to accelerate toward 2percent -- the price stability target..." ...

Oil price fall forces sovereign funds to switch gears

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
Oil and gas export revenues are helping fund three quarters of sovereign wealth fund assets globally, but as oil prices remain lower, sovereign funds are expected to focus on other parts of the economy. Moody's Investors Survey research of global sovereign ...

Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... increase in inflation rates compared with earlier expectations... Taking into account the most recent developments in oil prices and recent exchange rates, there are downside risks..." More so because latest available growth and inflation data show that ...

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... gas prices in July (after gains of 3.4% and 10.4% in the preceding two months). What becomes of inflation now that oil prices have moved lower? The minutes also revealed the FOMC's worries over China's slowdown. "...the recent decreases in oil prices ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... its long-run average." "Global economic conditions were expected to continue to be supported by the lower level of oil prices and accommodative global financial conditions." Apart from dropping the official cash rate to an historic low of 2.0%, the RBA ...

Empire State bombs out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... lift-off expectations. More so, if you consider that the index had been hit by energy equipment purchases because of lower oil prices, in part because of the string US dollar because of lift-off expectations. Wall Street seemed to be. The S&P 500 index ...