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One small rise in rates, one giant step towards normalisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
Don't you just love it when things turn out as expected? Wall Street surely did. US equities jumped -- Dow up 0.5%, S&P up 0.84%, Nasdaq up 0.7%, Russell 2000 up 1.5% -- the VIX index dropped by 5.5% and instead of climbing, the US dollar index fell ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... there were a few down days but overall, the US equity market - like the energizer bunny - keeps on going and going... up. Wall Street's major equity market indices closed at record highs - the Dow at 21,115.55 points; the S&P 500 at 2395.96 points; the ...

ING Direct partners with Apple Pay

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2017
Over half a million ING Direct customers will benefit from a new integration with Apple Pay. With 74% of the bank's customer interactions coming via its mobile app, the integration is in response to high demand from customers for the mobile payment ...

Mexican pain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... But not for Mexico, it appears, especially when the words come from POTUS. US President Trump's rhetoric about "building a wall along the US-Mexican border"...and making Mexico pay for that wall is hurting the country of tequilas. The first transmission ...

One week delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... Senate, expect Trump to deliver on tax cuts - company and personal - infrastructure spending, restructuring, that "Mexican wall" and trade protectionism. The immediate implication would be reflation - growth will inflate and so will consumer prices. ...

A world of distrust: Edelman

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
... globalization, immigration, the pace of innovation, and eroding of social values are lead fears. "Business is the last retaining wall for trust," Edelman Corporate practice global chair Kathryn Beiser said. "It has done a masterful job of illustrating ...

Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... in. The S&P 500 is trading at 17.2 times prospective earnings - overvalued relative to its 5, 10 or 15-year averages. Where Wall Street goes, the world goes. He'll certainly try... but will it be watered down by the US Congress? Then there's the surging ...

Advice from abroad

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2017
An expat, a father and lover of all things social, Brett Evans is not your average financial adviser. From an early age Evans knew finance was the right place for him and flourished in the uncertainty and challenge of each day. "I love the industry ...

Innovate to beat innovation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2017
... the number of difficult choices will increase, but so will the opportunities," Cerulli's Europe managing director Barbara Wall said. "It is tempting to sit on the fence but we believe firms that do so will lose out." The firm believes that hybrid robo-advice ...

A$ drop brings good cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
... rebuilding, deregulation, tax reform. Ones that are expected to turn the "new normal" into the "new new normal". Equities on Wall Street have soared to fresh record highs. Never mind stretched valuations - they'll be revalued higher when Santa Trump's ...