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Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
The share market remains relatively flat as investors wait for the Reserve Bank's decision on interest rates and the latest economic growth figures. The market spent most of the morning in marginally negative territory, before rising to be modestly ...

No drama at the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... otherwise, but as far and as wide as I dug, dug, dug and dug some more... the "will they, won't they" -- move on interest rates -- question doesn't even figure in today's meeting. No siree! Especially not a month after producing that very detailed assessment ...

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... of 4.2% from 4.0%. Stats like these should revive speculation that the Fed's "considerable time" before raising interest rates won't be so considerable any longer. But nah, not after Janet's Jackson Hole detailed elaboration for the remaining "slack" ...

Hold fire: Emerging market debt set for correction

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... told existing clients to hold off on committing more capital to the asset class until the US has begun raising interest rates. Osses said he's had to adopt a much more flexible approach to the asset class in the last three years as volatility has increased ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... The broad US gains were partly because of Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen's commitment on Friday to keeping interest rates low. CMC Markets chief market strategist Michael McCarthy said the joy was flowing through to local investors at the open. "There's ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... Shamu said comments by US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen at the weekend were being interpreted as a sign that interest rates there will rise earlier than expected, contributing to a pullback in stocks. Locally, Australian investors were also focussing ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... respective labour markets or that their labour force is not "under-utilised", and that it's time... to normalise interest rates? It's safe to assume that we could have heard a pin drop had the moderator of this year's Jackson Hole summit posed this question ...

Janet's Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... indicators suggest that Janet would not be deviating much, if at all, from the steady as she goes on taper and interest rates would remain low for a "considerable time" script of days passed. Investors are hapeee! How happy? The latest survey by the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... improved sharply. LONDON - European stock markets have climbed, cheered by hints the US Federal Reserve could raise interest rates sooner than expected in view of US growth, despite mixed eurozone data. Frankfurt's main DAX index on Thursday jumped 0.93 ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... close to making the kind of policy mistake that's been so rare at the RBA. On Aug. 5, he opted against cutting interest rates for a 12th consecutive month. Two days later, the jobless rate rose to 6.4 percent, the highest since 2002, compared with 6.2 ...