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Those who want a job can get a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... equally as strong, if not stronger, than the boom years pre-GFC. Similarly, the unemployment rate has declined to 4.9% in January - the lowest level since February 2008 - at the same time that more Americans are re-joining the workforce - the participation ...

Who spooked the greenback?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Have financial markets stumbled on the one catalyst that could herald the beginning of the end... the end of the sour taste in their mouths for all things "risk" since the onset of 2016? They're getting back their mojos. Many, many times I have scribbled ...

US dollar downed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... This followed the ISM manufacturing survey (reported earlier this week) which printed at a lower than expected 48.2 in January - the fourth straight month of contraction in factory activity (below 50). To be sure, the US labour market remains strong ...

Instos to increase alternative strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
Illiquid and alternative asset strategies will only increase across the institutional investment market in 2016 according to latest reports from BlackRock and Willis Towers Watson. A BlackRock survey of more than 170 of the firm's largest institutional ...

BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
A week and a day after equity markets welcomed Super Mario Draghi's announcement that the European Central Bank (ECB) would "review and possibly reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in early March in order to secure a return of ...

HESTA appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
HESTA has appointed a new director, replacing Richard Royle, who announced his resignation in November 2015. Daniel Sims joined HESTA on January 1 and is the nominee for the Australian Private Hospitals Association. Currently he is chief executive at ...

Not so durable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... minus 19.4 in January from minus 4.6 in the previous month; the Philly Fed index remains in contraction at minus 3.5 in January (although better than December's minus 10.2 reading); the Chicago Fed index's at minus 0.22 in January and that from Dallas ...

Now is the time to accommodate the sellers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
One of the best paths to investment success is to accommodate the market; buy when others are desperate to sell and sell when investors are buying irrationally. That's the investment mantra of Jonathan Bell Lovelace, the founder of Capital Group, one ...

Down but upbeat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
Thank heavens for 'Australia Day'! The holiday saved us, Australians all, from being whipsawed by the big swings in oil prices and on Wall Street. But there's even greater reason to remain optimistic - if not rejoice - for even before we downed our ...

Doom(ed) rebound?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
When the going gets tough...... the tough promises to get going. For a change, a number of equity markets around the globe finished flashing green numbers last week. The All Ordinaries index, for one, closed 0.4% in the plus - pitiful you might say ...