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Chief economist update: Are capital markets the next Sino-US battleground?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2019
US president Donald Trump might be thinking that it's a small price to pay - sending the US equity market down - in return for his broader objective of getting China to wave the white flag in this seemingly never-ending trade battle. US benchmark ...

Chief economist update: Future path of fed funds rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... Financial Standard declared just three days ago: "Every man and his dog is already positioned for this eventuality." US equity markets closed mixed: Dow +0.13%, S&P 500 +0.03%, Nasdaq -0.11%, Russell 2000 -0.63%; the yield on 10-year US Treasuries was ...

Chief economist update: A tariff for a tariff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... items from current 10% 20% tariffs on 1,078 items from current 10% 10% tariffs on 974 items from current 5% US equity markets dropped. The S&P 500 index and the Dow closed 2.4% lower with the Nasdaq diving by 3.4% overnight. Ten-year US Treasury bond ...

No-deal Brexit prolongs market uncertainty

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... form of clarity on the final outcome - so at this stage the effects on global markets are muted. Across the US equity markets, T3 Index chief executive Simon Ho doesn't see a major impact in the short term. The no-confidence vote could have a potential ...

Markets prompt adviser asset allocation review: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... currently thinking of reviewing clients' asset allocation due to mounting geopolitical risks and overvalued US equity markets. About a third (31%) is uncertain about market valuations over the next six to 12 months, and about the same number of advisers ...

On the road to normal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
... with the readings of the boom years (2005-2007) before the global financial crisis hit. Speaking of boom, the US equity markets are having one of its own with all major equity indices - S&P 500; Dow Jones Industrials; Nasdaq composite; Russell 2000 - ...

Locked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... by around 1.0% against the US dollar following the news and futures market are pointing to lower European and US equity markets when they open later today. But whether this is a knee-jerk reaction that would later on correct (as in Brexit) remains to ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... dollar after the Federal Reserve said any rises in US interest rates would be slow, before easing to $US1.1407. "US equity markets opened higher and spread optimism across European stocks which reversed earlier losses and climbed higher during the afternoon's ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... 5,526. Wall Street rose more than one per cent as technology and banking stocks helped a run of sluggish trade in US equity markets. Locally on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases jobs figures for May, which is expected to show the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... per cent) to 4,258.44. A vertigo-inducing trade week saw markets careen up and down but calmer at week's end. US equity markets opened positive and stayed in the green all day following solid earnings reports from General Electric and Morgan Stanley ...