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Cash is king at the Future Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... Fund chief executive David Neal said that during the year "we were very deliberately positioned to take advantage of the stimulus monetary policy in Europe and the United States." But with monetary policy set to tighten and investors expecting an increase ...

August angst to September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... talked and warned about it for as long as I can remember and the People's Bank of China's successive announcement of stimulus measures confirm that it is. The known unknown is China central command's inclination, readiness and ability to keep things ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... before this wailing and gnashing of teeth - that bad China news brought hopes that central command would fight back with stimulus measures to keep PM Li's growth target of 7.0% on target. Well the PBOC has made real those hopes - cutting another 25 bps ...

Too much ado about a speck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... stimulation - lowered interest rate or lowered reserve requirement or fiscal pump priming - they speculated about, but a stimulus is a stimulus is a stimulus. Now the narrative has changed - China's action is "currency war" and currency intervention. ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... weak domestic demand. Yippee-kay-yay! Markets rally for it was so bad that it's oh so good... it'll be met with more stimulus. (As an aside, has anyone noticed that "experts" take bad China stats as gospel truth and good ones as faked, flukes or tampered ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... way back in 2007. True that. According to the tech behemoths, Wall Street's outperformance is because of "unprecedented stimulus from the country's central bank, the US Federal Reserve" and - not beating their own drums - "...the glaring absence of a ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... 'two steps forward, one step back situation." But following the Federal Reserve's QE program, "the US responded to the stimulus and is getting back to normal." The main difference with Europe is not only that the region is more complex and that different ...

Market set for a steady start

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... Shanghai plunged more than six per cent on tight liquidity. The yen edged down after the Bank of Japan held off on any new stimulus measures at its latest policy meeting despite flatlining inflation, and Tokyo ended 0.91 per cent higher, adding 183.42 ...

QIC asks government to step up, break toxic cycle

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
The government should step up and introduce fiscal stimulus to the economy to break a dangerous cycle of low consumer confidence and low investment as Chinese demand plummets, QIC said. QIC chief economist Matthew Peter painted a gloomy outlook of the ...

Australian stock market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... KONG - Shanghai stocks have closed at a seven-year high after another round of weak Chinese data fuelled hopes for fresh stimulus, while the US dollar sat around 13-year highs following a forecast-busting US jobs report. Shanghai added 2.17 per cent ...