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Bloomberg launches financial data management tool

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
Bloomberg PolarLake has expanded its enterprise data management business to financial services companies and corporates in Asia and Australia. The company's expansion follows the establishment of an office in Singapore to meet the sector's growing needs ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... doing to the US dollar and its potential negative consequences for the American economy. But this morning's report from Bloomberg, "Beware the $300 Billion Shift Into Treasuries From Japan" made me think twice. According to Bloomberg, because of low ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... a,-60 billion a month quantitative easing programme today. Details about the ECB's first buys are still unavailable but Bloomberg reports that it started small and selective. "...purchases included bonds from at least five countries, the size of individual ...

My QE, your problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... Central Bank (ECB) unveiled the details of its trillion euro quantitative easing programme last night. Special thanks to Bloomberg for saving me work and publishing the details in dot points (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-05/here-s-how-ecb-qe-will-work). ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
Another rate cut is coming, another rate cut is coming. Bloomberg's survey shows (tada!) 18 out of 29 economists expect the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to follow-up February's 25 bps reduction in the official cash rate to 2.25% with another 25 bps ...

Brady Bunch as useful as market commentary: Shane Oliver

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... is skeptical that the insights he gives are helping investors achieve better results. "I tweet and appear on Sky and Bloomberg but is it helping investors? I suspect not. How can you make any sense of all the conflicting messages out there? Investors ...

WTF moment on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... for most. The song played in my head the minute I read the sentences "S&P 500 just broke 2,100 for the first time" (Bloomberg headline) and "Earnings for S&P 500 companies rose 4.2 percent last quarter, and will probably drop in the next two periods ...

Currency warriors, mount horses and draw swords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
"US Stocks Climb as Oil Gains, Pfizer Rises on Hospira Purchase" This was Bloomberg's take on the whys and the wherefores for the S&P 500 index's 1.0% rebound overnight after slipping by 0.4% the day before that was prompted by a 9% plunge in oil prices ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... cut back in May 2012. This would take the RRR down to 19.5% for big banks and 18.5% for small banks (and, according to Bloomberg, the "Agricultural Development Bank of China gets an extra cut of 4 percentage points."). The move is expected to add liquidity ...

Majority wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
You oughta be congratulated! Clap, clap, claps are in order for the six sages (out of 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg) who correctly anticipated the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) verdict to cut interest rates by 25 bps to a historic low 2.25% ...