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Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... 2017 and 2018, sending the US dollar index down to 95.41 from 95.66 the day before. Santa Yellen's Xmas gift cheered Wall Street though -- the S&P 500 index closed 1.1% higher and the yield on 10-year US bonds down 4 bps to 1.65% on the day. Let's hear ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... rates. Governor Haruhiko Kuroda insists that there is still room for interest rates to go even more negative, the 'Wall Street Journal' reports that Kuroda is seeing the negative side of cutting negative interest rates deeper into the negative. "The ...

Capital stewards create value on Main Street

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
... to own in an investment portfolio. Hunt added that often the value of the company "is made on Main Street, not on Wall Street" and this is where funds as capital stewards need to be vigilant.

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... punctuated by disappointing key stats from the world's major economies, something strange in our neighbourhood happened... Wall Street produced a trifecta. The Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq all closed at record highs on the 11th of August - a feat ...

US mulls borrowing limit on leveraged ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... been sold the instrument. Some investors were geared three to four times their original investment. According to the Wall Street Journal, an SEC proposed rule could treat leveraged ETFs like mutual funds, which could impact the way some investors, particularly ...

Competitive forces driving US pension fees down

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... lawsuits attacking companies for using plans with high charges has also put the focus on lower-priced options. The Wall Street Journal said a new Labor Department rule that holds financial advisers to higher standards of behavior will likely lead many ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... derive personal retirement income from "superannuation/annuity/allocated pension". US consumer confidence A rebound on Wall Street and a more dovish Fed pushed the Conference Board's consumer confidence index up to 96.2 in March, stronger than consensus ...

Quant hedge fund arrives down under

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... in Australia this week is a crowd-sourced quantitative hedge fund that was originally conceived as a way to "hack Wall Street". US-based Quantopian is an investment firm that provides an open platform where anyone can research, back test and execute ...

Who spooked the greenback?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... Not surprisingly, Fed rhetoric has turned dovish. Fed Governor Lael Brainard's comment is the latest. She told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that, "Recent developments reinforce the case for watchful waiting" because slow growth in the developed economies ...

US dollar downed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
Wall Street is up - S&P 500 index closed 0.5% higher after dropping by as much as 1.5% overnight - as the US dollar plunged - Bloomberg US dollar index down 1.6% -- and oil prices soared by around 7% (despite the Department of Energy's report that crude ...