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Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... inflation expectations are rising - not less because of the bottoming/rebounding oil price (exacerbated by a weakening US dollar). To be sure, to be sure, the risk of deflation has eased but with slack still a-plenty in the major economies - China's ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... 2.0% -- but I bet my bottom dollar not a single soul expected the A$ to do what it did. It 'ap'-preciated versus the US dollar instead of 'de'-preciating - the natural reaction to a central bank action of lowering interest rate differentials. The A$ ...

Will nice numbers make RBA a bad guy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... unchanged in March from a mere 0.1% gain in Feb. But it's good enough for them, good enough for Wall Street and the US dollar too which rose overnight because of the "solid rebound" in factory orders. Well know for sure after lunch if the latest "good" ...

Magellan ups cash weighting to 15%

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... current market environment as "anything but normal" and referred to the fall in oil prices, the appreciation of the US dollar, falling Chinese growth and poor economic data in the US in recent months. All of these events "have clouded investors' judgment ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... implication that this gets the Fed's fingers off the lift-off trigger... at least in June. More so, because it is the strong US dollar - yes it has gone down lately but it's still strong - that caused 'net exports' to be the biggest drag on first quarter ...

When?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... FOMC thinks that "this too shall pass", it's due to "transitory factors" -- it's the weather, it's crude oil, it's the US dollar. It's the weather. Another severe winter in America has kept American consumers at home and off the shops. It's crude oil. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... end the day 6,946.28 points compared with Tuesday's closing level. The euro climbed to a three-week peak against the US dollar at $US1.1064 as the greenback took a hit on the slowing US growth. HONG KONG - Asian markets slipped with more weak US data ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... later-rather-than-sooner and (or because of?) indications of slowing momentum in the US economy has reversed the upward course of the US dollar. The US dollar index has now weakened to 96.1 - a 4.3% drop from the 100.4 peak hit only last month. On the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... boosts Japanese exporters. Wall Street pushed higher on the back of strong house sales data, which also supported the US dollar, while the euro was weighed down by worries about Greece's future in the eurozone. Tokyo added 0.27 per cent, or 53.75 points ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... perhaps when interest rates begin to rise in the United States. That would probably occur alongside an appreciating US dollar. So the distribution of credit risk and foreign currency risk will be of considerable importance. One can easily see why investors ...

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