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Major US exchange to stop listing bitcoin

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
... near USD$17,000 when they launched in December 2017 and reached a height of almost USD$20,000. It is estimated prices have fallen by approximately 80% since then.

Chief economist update: Where sentiment goes, there too is spending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2019
... the 11 December 2019 FOMC meeting is now at 83.2% (up from 69.5% a month earlier) while the likelihood of a rate hike has fallen to 3.3% from 20.3% over the same period. At the same time, rate cut chances have increased to 9.8% from 7.9%. These probabilities ...

Chief economist update: The RBA capitulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... bonds are 6 bps lower to 2.18%. Yes Virginia, with a mere shift in the RBA's guidance to N-E-U-T-R-A-L, yields have fallen across the curve. But special mention goes to the Australian dollar's depreciation - that which had shielded Australia ...

Misconduct must end: Frydenberg

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... controlled those entities." "Too often the conduct within our financial institutions has been in breach of existing laws and fallen well below community expectations. The price paid by our community has been immense and goes beyond just the financial," ...

Australia Day: How the barbecue has changed

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... respectively over the last two decades. However, common barbecue grocery items such as tomato sauce and white bread have fallen more than 21% and 23% respectively. In terms of alcohol consumption, the ABS pointed to its 2017-18 National Health Survey ...

Will the PC recommendations fall through the cracks?

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... two weeks after the Productivity Commission unveiled its final report, has its push to overhaul the superannuation system fallen on deaf ears? Two legal experts discuss what could happen next. Following a three-year review that produced 31 recommendations ...

Chief economist update: Australian property market slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... stability by 2020 is that it expects the return of homebuyers following this year's expected slump - i.e., prices have fallen enough to entice buyers. To be sure, all the signs point to weakening prices going forward. I'll let the charts do the ...

Why the RBA has reason to cut rates in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... Ordinaries Index remain 7.3% down from a year earlier while CoreLogic's "5 city capital aggregate" home value index has fallen by 6.6% in the year to 9 January 2019. These would certainly put a dent on consumer confidence but more importantly, the ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... year to date, dragging all others with it - the MSCI developed equity index is down 9% and the emerging market measure has fallen by 13.3% over the same period. The US dollar index is rising while at the same time emerging market currencies are collapsing. ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... surprisingly, commodity prices have been dropping. The Thomson Reuters/CoreCommodity CRB Commodity Total Return Index has fallen by 4.8% this year to date. The slowdown in China and the decline in commodity prices isn't good news for Australia. Were ...