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Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
The release of the minutes of the Fed's and the ECB's June meetings have brought back financial market trepidation - sparked by last week's hawkish comments from central bank heads of the US, the Eurozone and the UK - that the end of cheap money is ...

Confidence: the business/household divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... confidence reading remains above its long-run average of +6 and as history shows, continued buoyant business conditions spark a catch-up in business confidence as exemplified by the 91.2% surge in confidence in the month of April or the 46.4% lift back ...

Fed trumps Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
The S&P 500 index notched another fresh record high overnight - up by 0.3% to 2,404.39 points - and the VIX index dropped to a reading of 10.02 - the market has never been this fearless in more than 23 years (January 1994 when the index read 9.94) - ...

China slowing to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
... orders, new export orders and production slowed, business sentiment weaken and employment contracting. While these could spark a re-emergence of concern over China's economic growth, it should not. This is because while the manufacturing PMI's - official ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... Eurozone economy. And oh, there's also the case of the RBA's concern over the froth in the Australian housing market that could spark financial instability. Low inflation may have pushed the RBA into cutting interest rates back in May 2016 (and then ...

QIC reorganises SA infrastructure business

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... previously a sustainability manager and senior manager, social impact at Westpac, and is also currently an associate director at Spark Infrastructure. Rickus, meanwhile, has been chair of MTAA Super and a director at Adelaide Airport and Principle Advisory ...

Not off the boil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
Chinese authorities' regulatory restrictions to cool the housing market appear to be having little impact on property prices. Latest figures show that the average price of new homes in 70 Chinese cities rose by 0.3% in the month of February following ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
A few more sleeps and the fed funds rate would no longer have a zero in front of a decimal point but a one. Unless something surprisingly dramatic occurs between now and the ides of March (15th of March), the US Federal Reserve is sure to announce its ...

In search of that elusive Australian animal spirit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
... capital expenditure and expected expenditure" (Capex) raises doubts over my own optimism with regards to wages - that would spark a virtuous circle of spending, profits, investments, hiring, etc. - based on the sharp improvement in the January survey ...

Professional standards spark SAFAA training

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2017
The Stockbrokers and Financial Advisers Association is partnering with a global compliance training service provider for a new e-learning initiative. The partnership with GRC Solutions coincides with the passing of legislation for new requirements to ...