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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... Friday as US job creation figures, while solid, were viewed by the market as not being strong enough for the US Federal Reserve to begin raising interest rates next year. The benchmark FTSE 100 index jumped 2.32 per cent to close at 7,046.82 points ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... Street lost ground in the middle of the week after weaker-than-expected US economic data and a warning from US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen that stock valuations were "quite high". Tokyo stocks on Thursday fell 1.23 per cent after a three-day holiday. ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... ahead..." in the May statement. This is it -- the last and final cut. The RBA would from hereon depend on the US Federal Reserve's kindness which it expects "to start increasing its policy rate later this year" to do what it has only partially done for ...

Pubs satisfying BlackRock income thirst

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... until the election is over, which is about a week away. He also believes it is likely to be on hold until the US Federal Reserve moves. On a global scale Thiel said growth and inflation are causing central bank monetary policies to diverge and so far ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... difficult to act." A winner amid Asia deflation Falls in energy prices and Asia's central banks' links with the US Federal Reserve are sending deflationary winds to the region. Lawson noted that countries such as India or Korea should benefit from the ...

When?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
That was a bit of an anti-climax, wasn't it? The outcome of the anxiously-awaited US Federal Reserve's two-day FOMC meeting, that is. And it took them all of two-days to come up with well... basically what you, I and Irene already knew and expected....while ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... analysts due in part to extremely harsh winter weather in some regions and the West Coast port strike. The US Federal Reserve said the slower growth was due "in part" to transitory factors and that the economy should resume expanding at a "moderate pace." ...

Volcker Alliance proposes new US regulator system

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... Volcker Alliance, a non-partisan regulatory think tank comprising former senior regulators and led by former US Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker, have released a report arguing that the structure of financial regulation in the US still needs major ...

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... rates by 50 basis points. BlackRock says economic growth and monetary policy are diverging globally and the US Federal Reserve is gearing up for its first rate rise since 2006. The firm says the central banks of Europe and Japan are pushing the monetary ...

2015: a lift year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
Pencil it in, carve it on concrete... 2015 will be the year that the US Federal Reserve lifts its federal funds rate target for the first time since bringing it down to 0-0.25% -- and nailing it there -- a long, long time ago (16 December 2008). Only ...