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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... that they see the US recovery as a genuine one," Andrew Clarke, director of trading at Mirabaud Securities Asia, told Bloomberg News. WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares fell from a record after the Reserve Bank dropped its tightening bias, prompting overseas ...

A Fed surprise?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... earnings disappointments (which raise concerns over US growth). Both of these can be traced back to the surging US dollar. Bloomberg's headline says it all, "Stronger Dollar Punishes US Earnings From P&G to DuPont". "The US Dollar Index rose to the highest ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... billion) of government debt and up to 250 billion euros of other non-financial corporate debt. But a report on Wednesday by Bloomberg said the ECB's board had drawn up a proposal to buy 50 billion euros of sovereign bonds per month until the end of 2016 ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... going quickly back to $70 plus, or we have entered an earnings down cycle for an appreciable portion of the market." (Bloomberg) Dear oh dear oh dear, what has the world come to? But to be fair to Michael, he might be alluding to those "aparts" I mentioned ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... want it to kill off competitors), but consumers should rejoice and... there's more of 'em than suppliers. For instance, Bloomberg printed a chart produced by Oxford Economics showing "the effect on GDP growth in 2015-16 of oil at $40 a barrel vs. $84" ...

The Grinch is stealing Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... we're now seeing dead people (apologies for mixing my movie themes). Wall Street's down, Europe's down and to quote Bloomberg, "emerging markets currencies tumble to decade-low..." To be sure, at a reading of 14.21, the "fear gauge" - the VIX index - ...

Slides can be fun too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... already freed some gas prices, and electricity prices are expected to follow next year)." Not only that. This one from Bloomberg, "This is a golden time window to acquire more strategic oil stockpiles at lower costs," Gordon Kwan, the Hong Kong-based ...

ASIC calls for standard cyber risk measure

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... quickly and has potential to dangerously affect the integrity and efficiency of global capital markets." Speaking at a Bloomberg Address in Sydney, Medcraft said that the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has made the risk ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... cent annualised rate, up from an initial estimate of 3.5 per cent. The median forecast of 81 economists surveyed by Bloomberg expected a 3.3 per cent gain. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases construction ...

Crowding in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... would come from the European Investment Bank) - in order "to share the risks of new projects with private investors" (Bloomberg). As per Bloomie, "The new entity is designed to have an impact of about 15 times its size, making it the anchor of the EU's ...