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Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
Some of the world's major central banks have already started the race even before the opening ceremony of "Rio 2016" on the 3rd of August. Perhaps it was much too early but the European Central Bank (ECB) opted not to start running when at its governing ...

Economic wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... itself. China's internationalising renmimbi Structural changes behind the world's three major (or G3) currencies (the US dollar, the euro and the Japanese yen) are eroding their basic currency functions with the result that their global influence will ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... profits. Then again, it also suggests the return of Fed rate hike expectations - underscored by the renewed strength in the US dollar and the rise in the two-year US Treasury note yield. Fed-funds futures now indicates a 24% likelihood of a rate increase ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
... sectors. PBOC fixes yuan down The People's Bank of China (PBOC) once again recalibrated the yuan's exchange versus the US dollar, fixing the mid-point of the yuan's trading band at 6.6857 yuan per dollar, down 0.39% from the previous day's close. The ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
UK credit rating The Brexit fallout continues. Credit-rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings have downgraded the United Kingdom's sovereign credit rating. Standard & Poor's lowered the UK's credit rating by two notches, from 'AAA' to 'AA' ...

Brexit - the Australian connection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... news of Brexit. It has depreciated against the currencies of our top three export markets (2015) - down 1.1% versus the US dollar; down 0.6% against the Chinese yuan; down 4.5% vis-A -vis the Japanese yen. And while the local currency went up against ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016
... growth which, in turn, had been boosted by the strongest increase in export sales in two years (September 2014). A weaker US dollar -- the US dollar index is currently at 93.53, down 5.2% from this year's opening level of 98.64 - juiced up overseas sales. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
... surplus and marks the first deficit since January this year. The yen's continued appreciation - up from ¥120.55 per US dollar at the start of 2016 to ¥110.73 at the end of May - sent exports down by 11.3% in the year to May - the 8th straight month ...

Concerns about EM unwarranted: William Blair

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... McClone said. Another area of concern for investors has been the potential impact of US interest-rate hikes and a stronger US dollar. McClone said an analysis of historical Fed tightening cycles since 1969 shows that emerging markets have outperformed ...

Australia tanks in global dividend index

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... sharply reduced their payouts, along with a handful of other large British companies. With sterling also weak against the US dollar, British payouts were down 5.0% in the first quarter on a headline basis in Henderson's index, with modest underlying ...