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The bad and the bad and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... bonds were smiling, they didn't budge at all, unchanged at 0.60%. Now for the bad US inflation and the Fed lift-off. The US dollar would be soaring if the markets really, truly believed this, would it not? But nah, the US dollar index (saves me from ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... with Shanghai rallying on hopes for further China stimulus while Japanese shares were boosted by a weaker yen as the US dollar reversed earlier losses. The gains follow a positive lead from Wall Street, where another batch of weak figures was offset ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... March, by 19% to the European Union and by 25% to Japan. And why? It's the yuan, that's why. It's pegged to the surging US dollar. Back in March last year, the PBOC doubled the trading band for which the yuan was allowed to trade against the US dollar ...

Emerging markets a no go in 2015

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... ground, trading around 20% lower than their 2011 peaks. It appears the combination of headwinds from a strengthening US dollar and uncertainty over the sustainability of global growth are causing investors around the world to avoid the region once more ...

Strike three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... morning's reversal in the A$/US$ exchange from yesterday's sharp rebound a function of the re-strengthened greenback - the US dollar index gained by 1.2% overnight - or ramped expectations that the RBA will cut interest rates in May? For sure, it's a ...

RBA rate cut: earlier and more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... tonne since the RBA's March meet. But over the same period, the Australian dollar has only weakened by 2.8% versus the US dollar - no thanks to Madame Janet's dovish comments - and by 1.9% on a trade weighted basis. This ensures that, unless the A$ collapses ...

From the mouths of Feds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... up the list of usual suspects: profit-taking; end-of-month, end-of-quarter window dressing; lofty valuations; strong US dollar/high US dollar; cheap oil prices/rebounding oil prices; weakening US economic activity/re-strengthening US economic activity ...

PMI surveys say...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... depreciation". Should the Fed raise interest rates sometime this year (as most expect), the resulting strength in the US dollar would give further impetus to business activity in the Eurozone and support that of Japan's and China's. The latest Markit ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... Ben Le Brun said the materials and energy sectors were the best performers. "That's unsurprising given we had a weaker US dollar overnight and a slight uptick in commodity prices, including oil," he said. Global miner BHP Billiton lifted 32 cents to ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... Friday in New York. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly advanced following rallies on Wall Street and in Europe, while the US dollar continued to struggle after the Federal Reserve dampened expectations for an early rate hike. Tokyo ended 0.99 per cent ...