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Fed's plan slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... sending equity markets in bear territory on the back of concerns over slowing global growth in general and a hard landing in China in particular and the continued slide in oil prices. As at last night, WTI oil's down 28% to US$26.55 a barrel from its ...

China's green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... improvement from November's 7.1% drop and consensus expectations for a deeper 8.0% fall. There were also green shoots in China's imports numbers - they went down 7.6% in the January period. Still, a big drop but better than the previous month's 9.2% ...

NZ Super appoints new chair

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
... Alternatives Investment Group and co-chief executive of Harvest Capital Management, the second-largest funds management company in China. She has also held roles as managing director and global head of strategy and business development for Deutsche Asset ...

Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... of the collapse of investment and because of the collapse of animal spirits - and this is because of what's happening in China." Well Dr. "Australia is doomed" Varoufakis, all these things are happening now. In fact, they have already happened in the ...

The GFC is still among us: Varoufakis

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
Greece's former Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, spoke recently in Sydney and argued that economic unrest in China is a sign that "the GFC is still with us." Speaking at a Macquarie Graduate School of Management event in Sydney, Varoufakis said that ...

And then there's gonna be five

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... market the last word on the yuan? For some time it has been under downward pressure. The simplest yardstick is the decline in China's foreign-exchange reserves, from a peak of nearly $4 trillion last year to just over $3.5 trillion now, a reflection ...

Treasurer calls for planners to enter China

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... The population of those 80 and older will expand fourfold to 6.8%. By 2019 the proportion of people aged 60 and older in China will lead that of people aged zero to 14. "Our opportunities in China go beyond the macro trends and we can run the inner track." ...

Paris adds to the "why nots" for a December lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... think what that this dearer currency implies for commodity prices and to US exports, particularly given the slowdown in China (new target 6.5%) and the Eurozone (real GDP growth eased to 0.3% in the third quarter from 0.4% in the second) and Japan (forecast ...

Rusting still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... plenum, is lowering its growth target from 7.0% to 6.53% would exert further downward pressure on iron prices. The slowdown in China has already led to a reduction in steel production. Official data shows that production contracted by 2.0% in the first ...

Future Fund issues return warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... starting to raise its interest rates off the zero bound. Adding to the uncertainty over the quarter was a series of events in China which raised doubts for many about how successfully the Chinese government will manage its transition to a more sustainable ...