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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... labour market has tightened and how that would impact inflation and the timing of the Fed's plan to raise benchmark interest rates. Michael James, managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities, said the Fed minutes showed "nothing really ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... single-family domiciles inched up by only 0.9%. Not too hot, not too cold. Just right for Janet Yellen to reiterate her interest rates would remain low for a "considerable period" address at Jackson Hole. Wall Street's renewed ascent suggests that the ...

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... Market Dynamics" -- of this year's Jackson Hole conference says it all. Read: "Finding New Excuses to Maintain Low Interest Rates For Longer". We'll know for sure this coming Friday. Meanwhile, China's in trouble again. No, it's not that Virginia. It's ...

QV Equities raises $180m

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... the share market as a result of geopolitical uncertainties as well as speculation as to when the US Fed may raise interest rates may provide some good opportunities for us to invest the money wisely in the next few months."

Fear me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... Mark changed their respective goalposts time and again to rationalise delaying the first hike in their respective interest rates.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... 16.41 points, to 2,206.47. Seoul ended flat, edging up 0.86 points to 2,063.22 after South Korea's central bank cut interest rates for the first time in 15 months, under growing government pressure including warnings of recession from the new finance ...

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... two-week high - for the bad US retail sales report (released overnight) conjures happy thoughts about the Fed keeping interest rates low for, perhaps, a considerably greater "considerable time" after it finishes tapering. US retail sales grew by nada ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... weighed news of a drop in British unemployment amid weak wages growth, which pushed back expectations that BoE interest rates could climb before the end of the year. That in turn pushed sterling lower against the euro and dollar. Frankfurt's DAX 30 jumped ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... agriculture sector. The move is expected to help lower funding costs for small firms and farmers even though real interest rates in China still remain lower than they are in Brazil, Russia and India, China's BRIC colleagues. The interest rate for those ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... Bank of England also chose to hold its key interest rate at a record low. The European Central Bank held its key interest rates unchanged at 0.15 per cent at its regular policy meeting on Thursday, two months after easing monetary conditions in the 18-country ...