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Trump's helping hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... to a more normal monetary policy. Just in case you start worrying that inflation would jump to the other extreme, the US dollar's appreciation over the past two weeks should help contain inflation -- the same US dollar strength that's also aiding the ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... the yield curve - indicating stronger growth than prior to the bond market's reaction to Trump's victory. And oh, the US dollar has risen too - this would help negate the upward pressure on inflation from expansionary fiscal policy. To be sure, there ...

Raising rates on soybeans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... lowers the projected future cash flow of the company as well as raising its cost of capital. Tag in the appreciating US dollar (that would erode export competitiveness and earnings) and good news become bad news. So many times over the past year, the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... improved only slightly in October (due to strong competition, subdued demand across key global markets and the strong US dollar). Eurozone Markit Eurozone PMI The latest update on the euro area's manufacturing and service sectors could increase on-going ...

EM equities beating global indices: VanEck

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
... bond yields, rising earnings and commodities stabilisation. "Emerging market performance has been supported by a stable US dollar. Given that many potential global headwinds are still yet to play out we expect market uncertainty to continue into the ...

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... a look at the events that transpire this year. The Fed's early year forecast of four interest rate rises lifted the US dollar and the Chinese yuan pegged to it. China fired by devaluing its currency, Japan and the Eurozone returned fire with policy easing ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... a stay of execution on interest rates and lowered the expected path of interest rates for 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 ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... come the 'twenty-first night of September". That something, of course, is lifting the US fed funds rate (sending the US dollar higher), should the FOMC adopt dove-turned-hawk Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren's advice that "A failure to continue on ...

AMP Capital China fund to be delisted from ASX

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
The AMP Capital China Growth Fund will be delisted from the ASX. AMP Capital has consulted with the ASX as to the most appropriate time to do this and now expects the fund to be removed from the exchange on December 30. Trading will be suspended prior ...

K2 hurt by Brexit call

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... cash rate in December 2015, however it did not expect the People's Bank of China to then devalue the Yuan against the US dollar and "this caused significant market dislocations." "While there has been a significant amount of noise in markets over the ...