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Local shares lacklustre in 2016

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
Low commodity prices and less demand from China are likely to translate into lacklustre equity market returns in 2016, according to Australian Unity Investments' outlook for the year ahead. The fund manager's chief executive David Bryant said all indications ...

Three days to lift off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... inflation expectations are falling (sharply at that) again. Would the lift-off (especially if it sends the US$ soaring and commodity prices falling some more) send expectations lower? The strong US$ would further dampen import prices - downward pressure ...

Economist says innovation one small part of growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
... Australia in 2016. He said export volume growth will remain solid primarily because of the supply developments in the commodity market and also the benefit of the weaker dollar for things like the tourism market and services more generally. "What I'm ...

Oil slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... of OPEC's production ceiling also take away the floor from the price of oil? The equilibrium price of crude - or any commodity for that matter - after all, is driven by the fundamental law of supply and demand. Admittedly in the Middle East these factors ...

Oil price fall forces sovereign funds to switch gears

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... large size means that they help support domestic fiscal credit profiles, that they are able to act as a buffer against commodity shocks and that they allow the country to improve external stability and debt sustainability. "Seventy three per cent of ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... currencies, the greenback has surged to its highest level since 2004. Now 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 ...

Australia back on the radar for international capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... investment community is too negative about the economy. Local investors have become increasingly concerned about falling commodity prices, a weaker Chinese economy and rising unemployment but, according to Moffitt, there are good reasons to be optimistic. ...

Rusting still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... The direction of iron ore prices is largely tied to outlook for China's economy - the world's largest consumer of the commodity. Iron ore prices traded closer to US$200 per tonne back when China was growing at double-digit rates, dropped to around US$65 ...

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... put downward pressure on growth and on inflation (which remains below the Fed's 2% target). A strong dollar would bomb commodity prices that would lower growth in commodity producing countries and emerging markets that would return to bite Uncle Sam's ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... mantra: extra cautiousness "We seem to have an overlay of greater uncertainty: fiscal policy is tightening at a time when commodity prices are falling and we will be lifting rates from zero, for the first time after the global financial crisis," QIC ...