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The Fed's aware of building imbalances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
Watching Wall Street break one record high after another make it very tempting to join the herd or raise allocation of US equities in portfolios. There's the fear of missing out (FOMO) and then there's the shorts that, time and again in the current ...

C is the key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... a 50 bps hike - the probability rose to 8.5% from 1.9% a month before. Still low, but rising nonetheless. But with Wall Street again proving the saying that "records are meant to be broken" overnight, the Fed could afford to do just that were it not ...

Taxing times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
... upon the reading the nasty news, exemplified by the Australian Financial Review's (AFR) 10 November report that: "Wall Street slumped with the Dow Jones shedding over 200 points after Bill Cassidy, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, said that ...

Former Lehman Brothers chief unveils new asset manager

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
The creation of a new US asset manager represents former Lehman Brothers chief executive Dick Fuld's most public Wall Street comeback since Lehman's collapse in 2008. Targeting high net worth individuals, family offices and institutions, Matrix Private ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... be reason enough to send investors heading for the hills and digging bunkers...but they're not. Equity indices on Wall Street are currently trading at the record highs set only a week before. Most would jot this down to the certainty of the Fed's "as ...

Fed does the thinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... for all along. So much so that response from the financial markets could be put down to just another ordinary day on Wall Street. The S&P 500 index lifted just 0.1%; the US dollar index dipped a little (92.64 from yesterday's 92.51 close); Yields on ...

Wall Street interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
It's back to business as usual on Wall Street. The sum of all fears - well, nearly all - many investors braced for didn't quite add up. US equities, the yield on 10-year US Treasuries and the US dollar, they all fell down last week as investors feared ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... this year's low of 1.65% -- it's all systems go for another rate hike -- one that would convey greater optimism for Wall Street.

Powered by low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
Wall Street's on a tear with all of the equity market's benchmark indices - S&P 500; Dow Jones; Nasdaq; Russell 2000 - hitting record highs last week. The most proximate cause is, of course, the strong June quarter earnings results. According to Factset ...

Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... equities will end the final day of FY2016-17 with an EOFYS (end of financial year sale) gauging from the heavy selling on Wall Street and Europe overnight. The S&P 500 index closed 0.9% lower last night (the Nasdaq even more, down 1.4%) while the Stoxx ...