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Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... due to release the June quarter consumer price index while the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic Activity is also due out. In equities news, BHP Billiton is expected to release its fourth quarter production report while Petsec Energy ...

Pension funds loading up on alternatives: BIS

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... commodity prices, even though core inflation remained close to target. They also faced the prospect of weaker economic activity as commodity-producing sectors were adversely affected, despite some offset from currency depreciation." Also read the OECD's ...

Over-reliant bank lending slows OECD economic growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... Catherine L. Mann, said the global financial crisis has raised deep questions about the influence of finance on economic activity and the distribution of income. "What our research has shown is that avoiding credit over-expansion and improving the structure ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... timing of interest rate hikes. Locally on Wednesday, Westpac-Melbourne Institute releases its leading indexes of economic activity report. In equities news, Furniture retailer Adairs will debut on the Australian Securities Exchange. In Australia, the ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... releases construction work done for the March quarter and the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Indexes of Economic Activity are due out. In Sydney, Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Philip Lowe gives a speech the Thomson Reuters' Australian ...

Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... the planet as we knew it last week and last month. The PMI surveys -- considered good leading indicators of economic activity - there'll be more of the same... more or less. And if it's less, you can count on your friendly central banker to do more. ...

Don't put all QE in the same basket: AXA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... were providing liquidity to the banking system. But until the banks turn that into credit, it doesn't generate economic activity. The only thing you really see when they create all this liquidity is that it causes the currency to weaken," Tinker said ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... view, it likely will not be appropriate to begin raising the federal funds rate until sometime in early 2016. Economic activity appears to be on a solid, sustainable growth path, which, on its own, would support a rate hike soon. However, the weak first-quarter ...

BOE no change, no worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... services growth accelerates in March - "Strongest rate of growth since August 2014" This positive momentum in UK economic activity and the jobs market should ease downward pressure on consumer prices... eventually. But until then, expect the BOE to continue ...

From the mouths of Feds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... dressing; lofty valuations; strong US dollar/high US dollar; cheap oil prices/rebounding oil prices; weakening US economic activity/re-strengthening US economic activity and the latest... Germanwings and Saudi Arabia/Iran/Yemen, et farting cetera. But ...