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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... jobless claims since January 2008 and decisions by the European Central Bank and Bank of England to maintain low interest rates. At 0756 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up 41 points at 5,048. In economic news on Friday ...

India's triple dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... yesterday to keep the repo and reverse rates steady at 7.25% and 6.25%, respectively. Read: the RBI did not raise interest rates. Yup, you read that right. Markets expected the RBI to raise interest rates to prevent the currency from dropping. Another ...

The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... arrows can now fly unimpeded. There's a positive report that's come out of China as well. The PBOC is liberalising interest rates there - it removed the 6.0% floor on one-year loans, allowing banks to set their own lending rates. Markets previously expected ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
Australian stocks have opened stronger following news China will lift controls on lending interest rates. The ASX200 index is back above 5000 points as the market rebounds from Friday's losses. IG market strategist Chris Weston said the market received ...

Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... investment then the total of non-mining investment is nearly four times the size of mining investment," Swan said. "Interest rates are at record lows. Fiscal policy is being tightened at a responsible and measured pace. The sizeable fall in the nominal ...

Gold headed to $3k an ounce says ETF pioneer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... reversed, the only thing that can happen is the debasement of the currency, and history shows that." He said that as interest rates rise, budget deficits are going to feel the pressure. He suggested that current improved sentiments may be down to the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... its highest level since September 2000. Bernanke, speaking in Boston late Wednesday afternoon, promised to keep interest rates low due to the weak economy, suggesting a slower time-frame to tapering the Fed's aggressive bond-buying program. The comments ...

Lotsa data but no game change (yet)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... the bestest news would have to be ECB President Super Mario's repetition of his commitment to lower for longer interest rates. "The exit from our monetary policy stance being accommodative is distant." Perhaps not so for the Fed. Not with the latest ...

Dismiss fixed income at your peril

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... weeks have served as a good lesson that equities can face very hard falls. While fixed income doesn't do well when interest rates are rising, it's far from the biggest risk on a whole-of-portfolio basis." GSAM proposes investors with less appetite for ...

Fidelity set to expand Australian presence

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... "Over the long term we believe we have opportunities to be flexible about how to service our Australian clients. If interest rates continue to fall here then our record for helping our European clients generate income without undue risk should see us ...