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Oil's rally could slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2016
... "money managers in the market conceded that matters had gone too far". These were the price of a barrel of Brent and crude oil circa January this year - the 13-year low prices that proved to be the bottom of the oil barrel. The International Energy Agency ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
... increase and follows a 0.1% increase in the previous month. The monthly fall in industrial output was driven by a 4.4% fall in oil and gas extraction and a 3.7% decrease in mining and quarrying output. Manufacturing output rose by 0.2% after dropping ...

Where's the Brexit-induced recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016

CYBG appoints former AMP MD

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
CYBG, the new holding company for Clydesdale Bank following the NAB demerger, has appointed two new directors. Timothy Wade, who will join the boards of CYB Investments and Clydesdale Bank, as well as the board's risk and audit committee, joins CYBG ...

AMP Capital boosts Infrastructure Equity team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
... independent consultant with ESVAGT, a provider of emergency response and rescue services in Denmark and Norway's offshore oil and gas industries in which AMP Capital has a 50% stake. "Phil's extensive experience, which includes infrastructure management ...

Mastering the art of ignoring crises

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... have been as many as 431 financial crises - as labelled by the media - between 1970 and 2011 including large events like the oil crisis and the bursting of the dotcom bubble to smaller ones including the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... GDP declined by 0.5% in the second quarter, an improvement from the 1.2% drop in the first quarter, helped by higher crude oil prices. Russia's Ministry of Economic Development expects the economy to contract by 0.2% in 2016 as growth improves to 0% ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... produced by RBS on the 8th of January. Among the notes' key points are: The major correction sparked by China would snowball; oil could fall as low as US$16 per barrel; Wall Street and European stocks will fall 10-20%, "with even an deeper slide for ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... package the Bank of Japan is expected to issue a range of construction and other longer term bonds types, commencing September. Oil, the bad news keeps coming Just as oil companies battle with world oil price flirts with dropping below the USD40 per ...

Indian LIC launches IPO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... larger slice of its share market than Australia, Pereira said. "India is also one of the world's biggest beneficiaries of lower oil prices, which is a newer stimulus to its economy. Add to this the economic reform agenda that is increasing interstate ...