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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... to February from 1.3% in the previous month while the core PCE inflation measure remained unchanged at 1.7%. Russian GDP Russia continues to shrink, falling by 2.7% in the year to February (the same as the previous month), marking the 14th straight month ...

US growth stable due to resilient consumer-base

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... people in the global workforce from 1.5 billion to 3 billion people. When you take down the borders in China, India, Brazil, Russia and Indonesia, we have hundreds of millions of very low wage underemployed workers coming to the global workforce," he ...

Hedge funds suffer worst year since 2011

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... fund regional investment mandates. They have outperformed the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index by over 14%. Eastern Europe and Russia-dedicated hedge fund strategies posted the worst returns in December, down 4.48% for the month following the steep downturn ...

Oil slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
No more quotas. No more targets. No more ceilings. This was OPEC's (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 ...

Chill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
"Chill out!" Although it could also apply, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) chief Glenn Stevens wasn't advising Russian President Vladimir Putin against having Turkey for Thanksgiving in retaliation for Turkey's - the country - downing of a Russian warplane ...

Goldman Sachs calls time on BRICs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has closed its BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) Fund and integrated it into a wider emerging markets fund. After the firm first coined the term in 2001, the move effectively brings the BRIC era to an end. GSAM notified ...

Super law changes "political suicide"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... international taxation law. "There's a number of people from Australia who work overseas, whether it's in Dubai or Chile or Russia, with the oil projects. And vice versa: people coming to Australia and working here," he said. "I get a lot of questions ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... commodities which, by extension, dampens the growth outlook for commodity exporting countries - Australia, Canada, Brazil, Russia, the Middle East - which lowers demand some more. And then there's terrorism - ISIS, Bangkok bombings and over the weekend ...

Gold's no longer gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... community's growing fear about further devaluation of the US dollar. Not true no more. US dollar weakness has prompted China, Russia and India to propose that the greenback be replaced by a multi-reserve currency system. When faith in the fiat currency ...

Extensions - What the Greeks await and the Russians hate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... confident that Greece's creditors would again extend a lifeline to Athens, the European Union (EU) has also extended one for Russia - economic sanctions. Optimism over reports that Greece and its creditors are close to hammering a deal on 22 June overshadowed ...