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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
... business investment - rose by 1.6% in July following a 0.5% increase in June. UK CBI distributive trades survey Where's the Brexit fallout? If the latest survey of around 150 UK retail and wholesale firms conducted by the Confederation of British Industry ...

LIC helped by high gold and cash exposure

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... relatively high weighting of gold and cash, and low exposure to European financials meant "we were well positioned for the Brexit shock and the negative sentiment that persisted over global markets." "Whilst the returns were generated across the portfolio ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
... highest level in seven months - from 53.2 in July, better than expectations for a dip to 53.1. The latest reading shows that Brexit uncertainty hadn't impacted the region's fledgling recovery (yet) but "with the index only slightly above the average ...

Flat Australian dividends help case for global diversification

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... Hong Kong and Singapore, but China is performing better than many emerging markets so the impact is relatively muted. "The Brexit vote in the UK has brought a devaluation in the pound. That will reduce the UK's share of the global dividend total, but ...

GBST profits down in "year of transformation"

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) - down to $20 million from $24.5 million - to June's Brexit outcome. "Had it not been impacted by a decline in the value of sterling compared to the Australian dollar caused by Brexit ...

Global ETPs see strong inflows

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... to end of June. The firm attributed the strong flows to higher investment in yield and asset categories less impacted by Brexit, with flows growing quickly in the first half of the month toward US and emerging markets (EM) equities and both developed ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... boosted tourism) during the month. To this, I would add the wealth effect caused by the sharp gains in the stock market since Brexit. After dropping to a post-Brexit low of 5982.20 points (27 June), the FTSE-100 index has risen by 12.4% as at the end ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
... production and the share market "consistently supportive despite global shocks and uncertainties particularly associated with 'Brexit'; the US election; Fed interest rate policy; and China's efforts to deal with a structurally slowing economy". These ...

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... income over the past five years has been 7.75%. Grow says the return of quantitative easing in the UK in the wake of the Brexit vote and the Bank of Japan's review of its own monetary policy mean a case can be made for bond prices rising further still. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... Eurozone economic sentiment Economic sentiment in the Eurozone rebounded to a reading of plus 4.6 in August following the Brexit-induced drop to minus 14.7 (a four-year low) in the previous month and beating market expectations for a minus 6.3 print. ...