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On the road to normal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
... ended 8 September. Yields on the tenners went up by more - 16 bps to 2.22% over the same period. Though still small, the Bloomberg US dollar index has recovered some ground from last week's low reading of 91.35 to 92 overnight. The US dollar index's ...

Wall Street interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... Jones Industrial Average gained 1.2% overnight (from -0.9% last week) and regained its hold above the 22,000-point mark; Bloomberg's US dollar spot index increased by 0.6% (down 1.6% last week) and after shedding 10 basis points last week to 2.06%, the ...

Treasurer backs APRA's CBA probe

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2017
... could be available in six months' time with appropriate action being taken, Treasurer Scott Morrison told this morning's Bloomberg Address. Morrison said he supported and is pleased with APRA's decision to conduct an independent inquiry into CBA's governance ...

Global reinsurer adopts ESG framework

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... governance criteria into its investment decisions through the use of the equity MSCI ESG Index and the fixed income Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Corporate Sustainability Index. The company said it is convinced that accounting for ESG considerations makes ...

The problem with currency extrapolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... US$0.7832 on 14 July and is currently trading at US$0.78. It's exactly two months and a couple of days (16 May) since Bloomberg published Michael Wilson's piece "The Australian Dollar's Outlook Darkens". Wilson talked about leveraged long A$ positions ...

HESTA stands up to all-male boards

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... analysis of diversity disclosure at listed companies found few in the S&P/ASX 200 disclosed numerical diversity targets. Bloomberg data as at April 2017 indicates that just 10 companies in the S&P/ASX 200 have a female chief executive and, on average ...

Brexit endangers EU asset manager passport

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... passports to the EU market - and several of these are Australian financial services firms, says Sarah Jane Mahmud, a Bloomberg LP senior policy analyst in financial services for Europe. In the event of a 'hard Brexit' scenario, financial services companies ...

VanEck launches floating rate ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
... notes (FRNs), or short-term bonds with variable coupons tied to an interest-rate benchmark. The ETF is derived from the Bloomberg AusBond Credit FRN 0+ Yr Index, which comprises about 200 FRNs from 80 issuers. It has a running yield of 2.74% as at 31 ...

May the force's not with her

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
... of a "soft Brexit" - where the country would remain in the European Union's (EU) single market and customs union. As Bloomberg put it, "May wouldn't have enough votes in Parliament to support her vision of a hard Brexit, and would find it very difficult ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... 0.3% -- and making it harder/longer for the Japanese central bank to hit its targeted 2.0% inflation rate. This is why Bloomberg's report that the BOJ is "re-calibrating its communications to acknowledge it's thinking about how to handle a withdrawal ...