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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 ...

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 ...