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Trump protectionism protects not the emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
... debt burdens would increase as their currencies depreciate against the greenback...not to mention the flow-on effect of higher US interest rates into the world market. The dearer greenback would also provide ouch number two. That is, emerging markets' ...

Minutes to disaster

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... "butterfly effect" (you know, the thing about the butterfly wings and the tsunami) in other economies. In as much as higher US rates would lift the greenback, it would be a positive for central banks trying to boost their economies or inflation or both ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... translation effects). That's all been reversed with the greenback's appreciation, bumped up higher by the prospect of higher US interest rates. Inflows into emerging markets have turned into outflows, creating all sorts of nasties for emerging market ...

Higher US rates will test investors' nerves: QIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Interest rates in the United States are expected to increase over the coming months, a change that will deliver higher returns, but will also test investors' nerves, QIC said. QIC is anticipating that the term premium, the compensation required by investors ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... 1.64% to 2.41% (as at last night). And this still doesn't include the negative repercussions on the US economy that higher US interest would bring - a stronger US dollar that would erode export competitiveness and increase exports (while at the same ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... billion takeover deal with Dublin-based Shire Pharmaceuticals as it plans to switch its tax base to Britain to avoid higher US taxes. AbbVie rose 2.6 per cent. In local economic news on Monday, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia releases its business ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... economic growth forecast for 2013 to 3.1 per cent from 3.4 per cent. Peter Cardillo of Rockwell Global Capital said higher US bond yields have also sapped the equity market of momentum. LONDON - European stock markets retreated as investors reacted to ...

Aust funds trail world in alternatives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Alternative assets make up 20% of world pension fund FUM but these alternative investors are continuing to shun Asia in favour of more established markets in the US and Europe. The 20% alternative weighting, according to a Towers Watson survey of the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... contracts traded. "The market has been pulled down by the materials sector due to weaker commodity prices caused by a higher US dollar," CMC Markets sales trader Miguel Audencial said. The US dollar has rallied due to a sequence of positive economic ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... severely severe, what it did last night was a pure stroke of genius. By putting a timeframe on when investors could expect higher US interest rates, it eliminated one source of uncertainty in the financial markets. Recall how earlier this year, speculation ...