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Trend - up, down or up and down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... measures should it become necessary. Wall Street valuation is high but not uber high, especially given current low interest rates. The trend's turning down. While the uptrend remains intact (for now), momentum is fast fading. Further selling pressure ...

A 1987-style crash cometh (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... more" by the end of the year. Because "Some of the tailwinds we've had-such as massive monetization and falling interest rates-are no longer in place." Result: S&P 500 up 8.9% from the time of his prediction to the end of 2013. But wait... there's more. ...

Dumping dear momos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... you's. The Fed and the BOE have already altered their thresholds so they have excuses to keep on pumping and/or keep interest rates low for longer. The ECB's promised to act "if necessary" and the BOJ's poised to pump more any time now. Having said that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... 0.10 per cent gain to 6,641.97 points, with markets largely shrugging off the Bank of England's decision to hold interest rates. However, markets on continental Europe were down, with Frankfurt's DAX 30 giving up 0.55 per cent to stand at 9,454.54 points ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... Wall Street surged overnight on the back of US Federal Reserve minutes showing no support for an early rise in interest rates. At 1200 AEST among the major banks, ANZ had added 24 cents to $34.10, Westpac had found 28 cents at $34.98, National Australia ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... Wall Street's surge led by tech stocks after US Federal Reserve minutes showed no support for an early rise in interest rates. At 0645 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was up 42 points at 5,506. The Fed minutes, as expected ...

Westpac to open branch in Shanghai

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... financial institutions exemptions from certain Chinese regulations, including caps on foreign exchange deposits and interest rates. Westpac Institutional Bank chief executive Rob Whitfield said the FTZ signified the beginnings of "a strong and regional ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... trading for trading's sake, rather than serving the real economy." Who'd care about the Fed, the economic outlook, interest rates, valuations, etc. when all you have to do is monitor buy/sell orders and get in a few milliseconds early? What think you ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... press conference, ECB President Mario Draghi assured you, I and Irene (one more time) that, "We talked about lower interest rates, a lower deposit facility rate, we talked about QE" and them, the Governing Council, was "unanimous in its commitment to ...

Investec offers reduced interest rates to adviser's home loan

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
Investec has developed a tailored home loan offer for financial advisers and is offering them reduced interest rates. After six years of developing products for advisers' clients, Investec is now targeting the advisers themselves. "Over the past six ...