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GSAM launches flexible global bond fund in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013
... across all fixed income sectors globally. "While in the short term we expect the Reserve Bank of Australia to reduce interest rates, globally we expect rates to start to rise as central banks gradually withdraw their accommodative policies," GSAM head ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... unemployment. The euro came under further selling pressure as investors bet that the European Central Bank (ECB) would cut interest rates on Thursday following soft eurozone inflation data last week. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ended Tuesday down ...

RBA and Melbourne Cup two-fecta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... (on monetary policy) and Fioreno to win (the Cup). On the surface, the RBA looks an easier bet - either it lowers interest rates or it doesn't - whereas Fioreno have to outrun a field of 23 other equines. Then again, Fiorena doesn't have to explain why ...

Market Wrap AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... gain on Monday after suffering selling pressure last week on expectations the European Central Bank (ECB) will cut interest rates at its next meeting on Thursday. Sydney slipped 0.38 per cent, or 20.6 points, to close at 5,390.5 and Seoul fell 0.70 per ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
... toxic debts. The euro fell for a second day running against the US dollar on talk of a possible cut to eurozone interest rates when the European Central Bank (ECB) meets next week - and in the wake of falling inflation across the single-currency area ...

Savings trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... started in falling in June. Exactamondo! That's the month after the Fed taper speculations started on 22 May - and interest rates (along with mortgage rates) started rising. That's why it's good data. Taper off. If US interest rates stay at current levels ...

Taper trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... time for tapering is not yet. Herein lays the trap...and it goes like this. Delayed taper boosts markets, lowers interest rates, lowers mortgage rates, supports economic growth. Growing economy prompts taper talks, unsettles markets, lifts interest rates ...

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... beginning to spark rate hike speculation despite the Bank of England's (BOE) 'forward guidance' that it would keep interest rates at their current low levels until the unemployment rate falls to around 7% - which it does not expect until mid-2016 -- ...

Spend, spend, spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... its bond purchases a little bit further down the road. Calmer nerves in the bond markets (and record low domestic interest rates) have prompted investors to resume their quest for higher yields and therefore, purchases of bank stocks. But it's not only ...

Market Vectors lists first Aussie banking ETF

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... Australian Banks ETF was the first of its kind. "Many Australian investors remain heavily invested in cash and with interest rates barely sitting above the inflation rate, investments such as the Australian banks can offer dividend income and the opportunity ...