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A$ down but would it stay down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... US65Ac by end-2016. Yipee-kay-yay! However, these are for reasons mostly recycled. Slowing China that would take down commodity prices - am not so sure about this. This is because China, as we found out last week, is not slowing as much as most expect. ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... the "Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) only a few weeks ago (3 July). It was predicated on a China bust that would take down commodity prices that not even ever so lower interest rates could save Australia. Woe is us! Never mind the most recent Australian ...

Australia stocks tumble on commodity falls

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... of the blue-chip Dow Jones index falling. IG Markets chief market strategist Chris Weston said concerns about falling commodity prices, such as iron ore, were a major contributor to anxiety on the Australian market on Thursday. "Traders are waiting for ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... goes the world's second biggest economy, there goes the biggest consumer of commodities - reason behind the tumble in commodity prices - there goes the economies of commodity producing/exporting countries, there goes national income and global demand ...

Australian stocks open lower on China concerns

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
The Australian share market has opened lower after sharp falls in commodity prices on concern about China's turbulent stock market. Iron ore fell 4.6 per cent to $49.70 US a tonne overnight, close to April's 10-year low of $46.70. Nickel fell nine per ...

New lifecycle and infrastructure options at Hostplus

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... invest directly into companies in the S&P/ASX 300 Index, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) covering developed, emerging and commodity markets and term deposits.

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... buy a triple-A rated currency like the dollar-A. It could be that the A$ has re-asserted its positive correlation with commodity prices and boyoboyoboy have they been dropping. And they've been dropping because of that other spook du' jour - the fall ...

Australian market skids on Greece

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... bailout terms. CMC Markets chief market strategist Ric Spooner said the `No' result in Greece's referendum and lower commodity prices were behind the market's sharp drop. But, "Greece is the main factor," Mr Spooner said. On Sunday, Greeks voted overwhelmingly ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... was down 29 points at 5,368. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the index of commodity prices and the Australian Bureau of Statistics posts building approvals figures, both for May. The RP Data Core Logic Home ...

Pension funds loading up on alternatives: BIS

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... economy at large," the report said. Discussing the financial shift in growth patterns globally, the report said weaker commodity prices had not yet dented financial booms in the likes of Australia, Canada and Norway, "which experienced strong credit ...