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Five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... in December from 6 in the previous month. The first double-digit reading recorded in five months was driven by higher trading conditions(up to 20 from 10 in November) and profitability (up to 14 from 6) - largely in the wholesale and transport & manufacturing ...

Sunrise sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
... newly-launched "business expectations index" hitting a 44-month high This obviously is a function of improved growth in its trading partners and the yen's depreciation. Sunset. Domestic demand remains weak (or is weakening again). After surging by 1.7% ...

Saxo teams up for auto analysis tool

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
... established in 2004 rolled out in Europe in mid-January. The platform was adopted by Australian-based brokerage forex and CFDs trading company Blueberry Markets and retail forex broker AxiTrader late last year. The service will be made available free ...

AAT upholds adviser appeal against ASIC

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
... manipulated the price of MINI derivatives. The effect of the trade, ASIC found, was to create an artificial price for trading the affected MINIs on the ASX. The AAT upheld Davidof's appeal stating that the MINI warrants in his case were not a derivative ...

New sales chief for State Street platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
... Singapore where he managed institutional and retail businesses across the APAC region. He has also held a number of senior trading roles in Europe and Australia, including City Index and Markets Plus. Chris Barrett, head of GlobalLink for Asia Pacific ...

ASIC imposes $40,000 penalty

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
... in place for a period of approximately three months (for this client)", during which the client had submitted 139,132 trading messages. The trade in question was cancelled within minutes of submission. Compliance with the infringement notice is not an ...

Machineries not in order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
... October. However, there's still a bit of sunshine in the report in that the latest stats occurred when the Japanese yen was trading as high as 100 to a dollar. The yen's depreciation since Trump - currently trading at 114.17 -- should underpin Japanese ...

A-dollar rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
... to US$0.68 in 2018. Then again, so were rationales put forward back in the heydays of the dollar-A when the Aussie was trading above parity with the greenback. In May 2011, currency markets were abuzz with predictions that the A$ would reach US$1.30 ...

Energy fuels US cross-border inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
The price of goods and services bought and sold by America from its trading partners lifted in December - both largely driven by surging energy prices. US export prices rose by 0.3% in the month of December following a 0.1% dip in the previous month. ...

Hunter Hall investment style to be maintained: WHSP

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
... value of HHL. In a letter to shareholders, the IBC acknowledged that the WHSP takeover offer is "materially below" the trading price for HHL shares, and has stated that based on current circumstances, they intend to advise against accepting the offer. ...