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Leading tech company farewells NZX

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... NZX on 2 February 2018, with its ordinary shares to cease to be quoted from close of business on the same day. In November of last year, Xero announced it would consolidate its listing on the ASX as part of its next phase of growth. Despite remaining ...

Gold starts to glisten (like 2008?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... US$1,050.60/oz. plumbed last 17 December 2015 (a day after the Fed lifted off). Back to 2008. Gold started to take off in November of that year after the first launched its first QE programme. Prices surged from US$750 an ounce in November 2008 to a ...

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... the bond yields of the PIGS back then, it sent them higher and higher. This forced a policy turnaround as soon as November of that same year and now it finds itself not only with negative interest rates but also printing euros... and promising to print ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... 2010, bounced around for the next three months on QE2 speculation before taking off again when QE2 was announced in November of the same year. When QE2 ended in June 2011, the S&P 500 index gained another 2.5% over the next five days before dropping ...

Another October to remember?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... 2010, bounced around for the next three months on QE2 speculation before taking off again when QE2 was announced in November of the same year. When QE2 ended in June 2011, the S&P 500 index gained another 2.5% over the next five days before dropping ...

Time to be fearful?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... overnight. Ho-hum. That isn't fear! Fear was the reading of 48 back in August of 2011. Panic was the reading of 80.86 in November of 2008. What about the bond market? The Bank of America Merrill Lynch MOVE Index - the bond market sibling of the VIX index ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... from 1.6% in the first three months of that year.A The Fed ended QE1.A Growth slowed forcing the Fed to launch QE2 in November of that year. Dateline June 2011:A US real GDP growth accelerated to an annualised rate of 3.2% from negative 1.3% in the March ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... when the A$ broke below parity. The A$ fell below the one is to one exchange against the greenback in September and November of 2011 and again in May last year. It bounced back above even each time. Except for the advertised short position of Druckenmiller/Soros ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... Reserve are also helping make stocks more attractive. The Dow's last nine-day winning streak was logged in May 1996. In November of the same year, in the early days of the technology boom, it gained for 10 straight days. The Standard & Poor's 500 index ...

No end in sight for ASX rally: InStreet

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... rally to reach the highs last seen before the GFC." The S&P/ASX 200 reached an all time high of 6829 Index points in November of 2007, and recently hit its highest point since early 2011. Nevertheless, commentators including Merrill Lynch chief economist ...