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No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
The portrait of Australian Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's beaming self-congratulatory smile as he did the rounds of media interviews yesterday remains deeply stuck in my brain. Can't blame smokin' Joe, he might just get his autograph on a third Budget ...

End heavy weighting in US equities: Tempo AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
Tempo Asset Management joined the ranks of global equities managers who are forecasting the end of the United States bull market. The third largest bull market in the US history has delivered "a remarkable performance but it's also very unusual," Tempo ...

Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
If even a dog can have his day, why not bears? Can't blame 'em Virginia, it's May after all - that month of the year when you, I and Irene are supposed to "sell and go away". But, but... but it may be more than the seasonality this May that's' taking ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
Can't win 'em all. After getting wrong-footed three for three, expert guessers finally got their RBA rate cut calls correctly - the Australian central bank gave in and delivered a 25 basis point reduction, taking the official cash rate to a new record ...

Will nice numbers make RBA a bad guy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
With numbers like these, who needs a rate cut? Indications of an improving labour market and strong - very strong - housing approvals are the latest domestic economic stats the men and women of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would ...

Magellan ups cash weighting to 15%

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
Magellan Asset Management has increased the cash weighting in its Global Equity Strategy from 10% to 15% in a bid to hedge the portfolio from an impending rise in US interest rates. Douglass argued that there is a "Great Disagreement" as to where the ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
I think someone forgot to tell the equity markets that it's not yet that month of the year when they're supposed to sell and go away. Look around and you won't like what you see because major equity markets around the world have been selling a few days ...

When?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
That was a bit of an anti-climax, wasn't it? The outcome of the anxiously-awaited US Federal Reserve's two-day FOMC meeting, that is. And it took them all of two-days to come up with well... basically what you, I and Irene already knew and expected....while ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street fell on news the US economy grew just 0.2 per cent in the first quarter. At 0817 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down 44 points at 5,783. In local economic ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
All eyes, ears, and noses are on the Fed and how it crafts its forward guidance when its 2-day FOMC meeting concludes tomorrow. Yes, it's forward guidance for there is nothing in the stars pointing to a lift-off announcement when tomorrow comes. While ...