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Swiss franc surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... December quarter pace when the cap was still in place) - and inflation - the annual core inflation rate was at 0.6% in October (the 8th straight month of falling prices). This is hardly surprising for an economy where exports account for around half ...

December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... bank had been expected to expand its QQE measures as early last month. It hasn't. The BOJ kept policy unchanged at its 30 October because, according to the minutes of that meeting, "With regard to economic activity, members shared the recognition that ...

Chill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... inflation - are not on red alert levels. Instead, the latest instalment showed that the unemployment rate dropped to 5.9% in October to 6.2% in the previous month - and this, alongside an increase in the participation rate from 64.9% to 65.0%. What is ...

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... the perceived importance of the beginning of the policy normalization process." This one sentence in the minutes of the October FOMC alone captures the message that Fed chiefs have lately been spreading on their speaking tours - it's not the timing of ...

Spreading the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015

The Fed could get it wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... even before the actual results came, the Fed already admitted the error of its ways when it called a conference call on 8 October and lowered the target rate by 50 bps to 1.5% and dropped it another half a percent to 1.0% at its scheduled 28-29 FOMC ...

IOOF awards small cap mandate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... performance. The Aberdeen Australian Small Companies Fund has delivered 13.03% on a net, annualised basis over five years (to 31 October), outperforming the S&P/ASX Small Ords Acc Index by 14.86% per annum. "We like Aberdeen's high conviction approach ...

Vanguard Australian Shares leads monthly ETF inflows

JOHN DYALL  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... dollar terms. Taking these effects into account, the allocation to Australian equities has fallen from 51% at the end of October 2014 to 43% at the end of October 2015. Over the same time period the proportion of international equities strategies rose ...

No December lift off? Small chance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... Lift off here we come! Although there weren't anything we already did not know, last night's release of the Fed's 27-28 October FOMC meeting minutes reminded you, I and Irene that December is still live. Although the statements were rather qualified ...

Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... energy prices month after month in its monetary policy statements, it could not will sustained growth and inflation. At its October meeting - where it kept interest rates unchanged at 0-0.1% and maintained JGB purchases at an annual pace of ¥80 trillion ...