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Consumer (un)confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
"Consumers' short-term outlook grew more pessimistic, with consumers expressing greater apprehension about business conditions, their personal financial situation, and to a lesser degree, labor market prospects. Continued turmoil in the financial markets ...

A negative sum game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
Last week was a happy one for equity markets with most benchmark indices registering sharp gains at the end of five days of trade. Is it now safe to go back in the waters? Or a dead cat bounce? It happened not so long ago, you know -- when the rebound ...

Global market slide hits NZ Super Fund

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
The New Zealand Super Fund has released its performance report for January 2016, revealing a negative 3.57% return. The $28 billion sovereign wealth fund attributed this return to its weighting to growth assets - in particular its 65% allocation to ...

Aussie jobs trend is our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
Another month, another surprise set of numbers from "6202.0 - Labour Force, Australia". In December, 'twas a positive surprise with Australian employment shedding only 1,000 heads (now revised to just an 800 cut) versus expectations for a 12,500 reduction. ...

Another 6-9 months under Downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
This is the picture of Australia painted by the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute leading index of economic activity. The headline index fell to a reading of 97.13 in January from 97.17 in the previous month. This is the index's lowest level on record ...

ETF revenue doubling every 18 months

JOHN DYALL  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
It is well known that the Exchanged Traded Fund (ETF) market is continuing to power ahead with enviable inflows every month. Even more impressive is that this has been achieved against a backdrop of negative market returns. One of the attractions of ...

More negatives

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
The Japanese economy shrinks, the Japanese sharemarket sings hallelujah! If this still doesn't capture the "bad news is good news" meme, we might never, never know what will. The Nikkei-225 index soared by 7.2% at the end of yesterday's trade. It even ...

Who can dig a deeper hole?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
Borrowers rejoice! Imagine how good it would be to have banks and other lending institutions pay you, I and Irene to take their money for whatever purpose we want to use them for - a facelift, a tummy tuck, education, holidays, a new car, another mortgage ...

LIF expected before parliament this week

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
The Life Insurance Framework is expected to be put to the House of Representatives by Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer this week. The government released exposure draft legislation in December 2015, based on the framework, which O'Dwyer said at the ...

Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
"The same old story It's been told much too much before The same old story But it's worth telling just once more..." - Billie Holiday Perhaps she didn't want to add rattle to an already jittery market. Perhaps she didn't want to deviate from the Fed ...