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OECD tells RBA to take a hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... industry - bricklayers, painters, household furnishings, conveyancers, etc. - sending profits down and affecting the stock market. The wealth effect of rising home values and stock market prices turns down and weakens already weak consumer spending that's ...

The Fed's aware of building imbalances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... Approach to Monetary Policy", Dallas Fed Robert S. Kaplan, listed "measures of potential financial excess." "The US stock market capitalisation now stands at approximately 135% of GDP, the highest since 1999/2000. Correspondingly, commercial real estate ...

No big deal or not yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... could be that everybody and their dogs were busy gearing up for the Black Friday sale that the big drop in China's stock market last Thursday got just a little hoo-ha last week. Even the S&P/ASX 200 index closed a mere 0.06% weaker on the 24th of November ...

C is the key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... October, the unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in 17 years - and then there's the wealth effect from the rising stock market and house prices - the S&P/Case-Shiller national house price index rose by 6.1% in the year to August, the 14th straight ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... displacing Japan. All this from Bloomberg's 28 November 2014 report "China Overtakes Japan as World's Second-Biggest Stock Market". For sure there are and there would be challenges - high debt levels, overcapacity, pollution, shadow market, corruption ...

Powered by low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... accelerating to an annualised rate of 2.6% in the second quarter from 1.2% in the March quarter. But we all know that the stock market is forward looking. Certainly, investors are looking beyond the earnings and economic growth figures for June. Trump ...

Good goings-on in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... foreign exchange reserves - up for the fourth straight month to US$3.05 trillion in May - the Chinese currency and the stock market. The onshore yuan exchange rate to the US dollar has appreciated by 2.2% this year to date while the offshore yuan exchange ...

Millennials choosing stock market over housing market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
As the prospect of owning their own home becomes less of a reality, millennials are turning to the stock market to invest and build their wealth. New insights from CommSec reveal more than half of all new customers are under the age of 35, with the ...

Moody's downgraded and upgraded China's ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... that would flow onto more expensive funding to Chinese corporates, shrink corporate earnings causing a fall in the stock market, eroding business, investor and household confidence. But nah! China's financial markets didn't give it two hoots. The Shanghai ...

Japan rides the virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
No news, it appears, is good news for Japan. The country's stock market and the yen have been heading in the right direction ever since the nuclear threat tit-for-tat between the US and North Korea was taken off the headlines. The Nikkei-225 index has ...