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Asia already benefiting from fall in oil prices

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
Positive economic numbers are already coming out from Asian countries following the fall in oil prices that started in late 2014, Nikko Asset Management revealed. "Asia is an undoubted winner of the fall in oil prices," Nikko Asset Management head of ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... 0.41 per cent to 10,694.32 points, and in Paris the CAC 40 fell 0.59 per cent to 4,604.25 points. Plummeting world oil prices were largely to blame for the fall in the 19-country eurozone, already beset by weak economic growth and high unemployment ...

Economists divided over Europe growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... expecting 18 months of above trend growth in US and we see Europe only two years behind." He argued that the fall in oil prices is likely to help growth in Europe and that wages in both Europe and the US are low enough after the global recession for ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... YORK - US stocks have pushed higher, rallying after two down days on generally solid corporate earnings and a gain in oil prices. At the closing bell on Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at 17,416.85, up 225.48 points (1.31 per cent). The ...

Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... outright deflation expectations? The ECB put this eloquently when it announced QE last week: "While the sharp fall in oil prices over recent months remains the dominant factor driving current headline inflation, the potential for second-round effects ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... Wall Street stocks have finished a volatile session sharply lower as worries about the strong US dollar and falling oil prices outweighed some positive earnings reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday tumbled 195.84 points (1.13 per cent) ...

Think of China as the new America

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... Japan stagnant or growing at a slow rate and China slowing. Probyn also noted that the recent and on-going falls in oil prices will have an effect on global growth and it is likely to provide "a cushion" to China's slowing economy. "We used to talk about ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... construction growth, as "people first buy a house, and then they buy furniture and white-goods to put in it." Falling oil prices are also likely to have a positive impact on the sector. However, Australia will go through what Bond calls "the two speed ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... per cent, to $7.83 after lifting sales revenue and production during the December quarter, despite a sharp slide in oil prices. Among the banks, Commonwealth Bank was up 74 cents at $85.97, Westpac had lifted 27 cents to $34.13, National Australia Bank ...

AMP Capital issues deflation warning

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... wake of the GFC as major contributors to deflation. "The danger is that the plunge in inflation driven by the fall in oil prices will drive inflationary expectations down at a time when inflation is already weak leading to a greater risk of entrenched ...