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In with the old, out with the new

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... jour was? It's anxiety over what the recalibration of the first quarter US real GDP report would bring tomorrow. Here's Bloomberg's take: Wall Streeters fear that US growth in the March quarter would be revised from a crawl speed of 0.1% (annualised) ...

Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... negative spiral, which then also affects expectations." That's the groundwork laid... but what would he be laying? Based on Bloomberg's monthly survey, "Most forecast a simultaneous cut in the benchmark rate, now at 0.25 per cent, and the deposit rate ...

Watching you watching me watching you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... York Association for Business Economics overnight. Though what Dudley said was relegated to paragraph 12 in today's Bloomberg commentary - it didn't fit with Wall Street's performance of the day - it was an important insight into the Fed's head. "Fed ...

OMFG! Australia could lose an A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... million) to Australian towns for losses on top-rated securities whose value plunged during the global financial crisis..." (Bloomberg)... or whether other countries lodged their own lawsuits against the credit ratings agency: "S&P is now expected to ...

Timely market surge for a tough budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... singing happy days are here again. To save me some time clicking through cyberspace, here's the list of headlines from Bloomberg: S&P 500, Dow Climb to Records on Tech Rally; Copper Gains. Canadian Stocks Rebound From Worst Week Since June. German Stocks ...

Action! in June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... having seen the Staff projections that will come out in early June." The financial markets' reaction was immediate. As Bloomberg reports, "The euro fell from a 2 1/2 year high, dropping to as low as $US1.3849 from $US1.3993. It was at $US1.3868 at 6.13pm ...

Mother doesn't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... right this time: "Wall St dips on Ukraine..." (Reuters); "U.S. Stocks Retreat as Ukraine Tensions Overshadow Jobs" (Bloomberg). Well sort of. This is because the US employment report remains ambivalent at best. It was good. US companies added a bigger-than-expected ...

The music's still playing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... high turnover - "About 6.3 billion shares changed hands on U.S. exchanges, 7.3 percent above the three-month average" (Bloomberg). Reports say those who rotated out of 'momo' (momentum) stocks are rotating back in, and overnight reports out of America ...

Bouncy bouncy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... Easter) "after data showed retail sales increased the most since 2012 and Citigroup Inc. (C) earnings unexpectedly rose". (Bloomberg). Not even renewed escalation in the Ukraine dissuaded stock shoppers. Citigroup shares climbed by 4.4% on better-than-expected ...

Bloomberg takes over UBS commodities indices

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
Bloomberg has negotiated a strategic partnership with UBS to allow its index business responsibility for governance, calculation, distribution and licensing of the bank's commodity indexes. From 1 July, the indexes will be renamed from the Dow Jones-UBS ...