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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... first-quarter net income rose three per cent to $2 billion despite weakness in its personal computer-related business. Most regions of the US economy expanded in recent weeks, although oil industry layoffs have grown, the Federal Reserve said in a report. ...

Stone and Chalk names chief executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... international investors. "Over the last five years I've worked closely with a lot of fintech start-ups across multiple regions and industries. Whilst local conditions tend to differ, I've found that the needs of entrepreneurs are universal irrespective ...

Europe and Japan becoming preferred equity markets

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... similar views in the company's Core Views report, released on April 7. "Japan and Continental Europe are our most preferred regions," he said. "We maintain our overweight in Japan at 25% overweight as it ranks at the top of our regional scorecard. We ...

Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... (http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1999/08/how-reliable-are-imf-economic-forecasts) Its conclusion? "Heritage analysts found evidence of inherent bias in IMF forecasts. IMF forecasts for developing regions were overly optimistic: The WEO forecasts ...

Emerging markets a no go in 2015

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... markets and retreated to safe havens in developed markets. In the past year there were heavy losses for equities in key regions such as Brazil and Russia according to Legg Mason. The company said the MSCI EM Index fell almost 20% in the fourth quarter ...

RBA rate cut: earlier and more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... speculative demand would tend to amplify the run-up in housing prices and increase the risk that prices in at least some regions might fall significantly later on. In the first instance, the consequences of such a downturn in prices are more likely to ...

STOXX enters Australian market

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... STOXX created the EURO STOXX 50 in 1998 and since then it looks after more than 7,000 offerings, including all global regions spanning blue chips to benchmarks to strategies to smart beta.

IRESS launches cloud-based trading platform

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... under increasing cost pressures while suffering from an ever increasingly competitive market, enabling trade in a range of regions at a cost effective level is crucial to opening the door to client and revenue growth," IRESS head of trading solutions ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... (ECB) which kicks off its a,-60 billion a month quantitative easing programme this month. Deflation has deepened in the regions, dropping to minus 0.6% in January from minus 0.2% in December. Despite its on-going massive QE programme, Japan looks set ...

Vontobel expands Australia, New Zealand operations

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... consultant as senior relationship manager to broaden its institutional client coverage in the Australia and New Zealand regions. Prior to Russell, Bobby Bostic was director for institutional and retail distribution a Capital Group in Singapore and Sydney. ...