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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. ...

Saxo revamps margin trading facility

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... for collateral. Any of these assets available through Saxo's SaxoTraderGO platform - or transferred to a client's Saxo trading account - can receive a "collateral value" from 25% to 75% for stocks and ETFs; and bonds' collateral value is determined by ...

Trump makes small beautiful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... the Russel 2000 index's spectacular performance since Trump. The index jumped by 10.1% between 8 November and the final trading day of 2016 - a massive turnaround from the 10.5% loss it recorded in the first two months of last year - taking its full ...

Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... year just passed, it is that the "January effect" -- the hypothesis that the stock market's performance in the first five trading days of January (or the entire month of January) determines the market's returns for the entire year -- does not always ...

Hunter Hall rejects non-compliance claims

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2017
... Eley and the rest of the firm became aware of a potential sale on 29 December. While Hunter Hall shares were already in a trading halt as of 28 December, the ASX's Aware Letter quizzed the firm as to why information regarding the ongoing sale negotiations ...

NAB partners for SMSF establishment service

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 JAN 2017
... "fully featured establishment and administration service" for SMSF investors. It facilitates ATO registration, cash and trading accounts and ongoing admin through one online form. NAB said its SMSF establishment service was different to market competitors ...

Goldman Sachs fined $120m for rate rigging

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
... pay a $120 million penalty for attempting to rig global benchmarks for interest rate products. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission found that, between January 2007 and March 2012, traders in New York - including the head of Goldman's US Interest ...

Two of the big four in ASIC spotlight

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... found between January 2008 and June 2013, bank employees colluded with other banks to enter offers into foreign exchange trading platforms without any apparent legitimate commercial reason; disclosed confidential information in pending client orders ...