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ANZ enters fast growing ETF market

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... Singapore vault; the Physical Renminbi ETF (ZCNH), exposed to an ANZ account holding offshore Renminbi; and the Physical US Dollar ETF (ZUSD), holding US currency. Laidler said that this is the right moment for ANZ to enter the ETF market, as the sector ...

Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... after the initial increase". Yes Virginia, lift-off will be "at some point this year". With these words, Janet sent the US dollar higher and the Australian dancing down on the floor to as low as US$0.7808 in New York trade before closing at US$0.7826 ...

You can forget June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... likely to continue to be a factor restraining U.S. net exports and economic growth for a time." Speaking of which, the US dollar index has started strengthening again since hitting a three-month low last Friday, up 2.7% to 95.61 since. A lift-off might ...

Tug o' currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... do not see a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation". And off the euro went, diving down by 1.4% against the US dollar to US$1.1155 in overnight trade. It's fallen some more as I scribble to US$1.1147. From a 2015 exchange of around US$1.20, the ...

Falling AUD offsets dividend growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... Amcor, Woodside Petroleum, BHP and Transurban raised dividends enough in Australian dollar terms to deliver increases in US dollar terms, as well as in Australian dollars. In the Asia Pacific region, companies distributed dividends of $12.7 billion ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... consumer sentiment index plummeted to 88.6 in May from 95.9 in April. Offsetting these data were the pullback in the US dollar and US Treasury yields, Hogan said. Netflix rose 4.5 per cent following reports it is in talks with a Chinese partner backed ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
You name it, we've got it. It's the drop in oil prices, it's the recovery in oil prices. It's the strong US dollar, it's the weakening US dollar in recent weeks. It's the "transitory" weakness in the US economy, it's the weakening US economy, it's... ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... data. HONG KONG - Tokyo's Nikkei index has been the biggest loser of Asia's major markets as the yen climbed against the US dollar, while Wall Street has provided a weak lead following more below-forecast US data. The euro added to recent gains on Thursday ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... "adjust policy as needed". Double-up. And then there's the flipside to the A$/US$ exchange - yup, the dollar US. The US dollar index dropped by 1.0% overnight to its lowest level since February this year, down 6.7% from the 100.39 high reached just 2 ...

End heavy weighting in US equities: Tempo AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... market over the past five years," he said. However, high valuations, the end of quantitative easing (QE) and a rising US dollar could put an end to the cycle. "The US market has benefitted from being the least ugly duckling among the major equity markets. ...