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Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
What a difference a week makes. Yes, yes, yo Virginia, in just seven winks, financial market sentiment went from "shiver me timbers, the sky is falling" to hapeee. Don't believe me? Here's Bloomberg's take last 15 October in its report headed, "World ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
The Australian share market had made strong gains in opening trade as investors snap up cheaper stocks following recent falls. Comments overnight from the Federal Reserve Bank's St Louis president Jamie Bullard suggesting that the US not scale back ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher following overnight gains on Wall St where the US Federal Reserve hinted it would not raise interest rates. Steady interest rates have a negative effect on the US dollar and bond yields, and increase the ...

Super Mario dropkicks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
Draghi dropkicks markets. Super "whatever it takes" Mario has promised a lot... but delivered short. Hence, we got what we got last night. The euro reversed its decline, so did euro bond yields and European equity indices dropped. The Euro Stoxx-600 ...

BlackRock opens global fixed income fund to local investors

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
BlackRock has opened its Fixed Income Global Opportunities Fund (FIGO) to Australian investors. FIGO is a flexible global multi-sector fixed income strategy that seeks to achieve a positive total return. While the fund is not tied to a benchmark, it ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... is PIMCO would haemorrhage investors and would need to liquidate. An ever so slightly longer term look at 10-year US bond yield shows that while it's up to 2.53% from September's opening yield of 2.34%, it remains more than 50 bps lower than the 3.04% ...

"Considerable time", is it a-changin'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
What's in a word? Two words to be precise. Speculation that the Fed would (or would not) change these two words when it delivers its monetary policy statement on Wednesday (NY time) has focussed the minds of many an investor lately and... wet the pants ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
Financial markets didn't get the kitchen sink they were hoping for but the fridge - along with the promise that the kitchen sink would come later - was good enough. With the eurozone economy in a coma - second quarter real GDP growth was zero - and ...

No drama at the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
The nine distinguished men and women that comprise the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meets today to deliberate on monetary policy settings apropos (wooh-hoo, big word) for Australia given current domestic and international dynamics. Pardon ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower, after falls in most commodity prices and a fairly flat finish for Wall Street stocks. At 0654 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was down 18 points at 5,611. Locally, earning ...