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Instos continue to bite on risk: State Street

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... highs seemingly every day and, volatility measures remain subdued. This positivity was clearly boosted by the US Federal Reserve lowering interest rates in September for the first time this year, whilst also signalling that it would ease a further two ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... cable expert Jim Hayes described it as "irrational exuberance" fuelling the Dotcom boom, a phrase coined by former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan. "During the boom years (between 1995 and 2000), perhaps as much as US$2 trillion was spent building ...

Special feature: Hunting for value

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... series of confusing announcements from Trump on his tariff policies and a stream of invective directed at the US Federal Reserve, which is stubbornly refusing to cut interest rates on command. Perhaps market sentiment has become immune to these gyrations ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... September 2007 and late March 2009. US households lost US$16.4 trillion; about 20% of household wealth. Further, using Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis data, Innova deputy portfolio manager and senior investment analyst Rafio Khan demonstrated that between ...

American Century cuts US outlook amid tariff impacts

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... some economic updates on topics surrounding interest rate cuts and macroeconomic assessments. "On this front, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell probably will continue to express a wait-and-see approach. Given the uncertainty regarding the landing zone ...

How will Trump's tariffs impact the RBA?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... that the inflation picture confronting the RBA might be a little less challenging than that confronting the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and certainly the Bank of England (BoE)," Miller said. "Australia's eschewal of retaliatory measures against US tariff ...

US-Iran tensions send markets into panic mode

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... and/or sticky in many regions. Market participants had been pricing in rate cuts from central banks including the Federal Reserve in the second half of the year. That is now in question," Green said. "A sustained surge in oil makes rate cuts very difficult ...

Resilient job market reduces rate cut probability: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... rate cut is actually warranted. The situation in the US provides an interesting point of reference. "After the Federal Reserve held rates... the market is now predicting two rate cuts in the US for the remainder of the year... To us, this seems a more ...

Advice bodies want efficiency, long-term solutions from Mulino

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... Mulino's vast experience and academic qualifications, which includes working with the World Bank and the US Federal Reserve and lecturing, look to be a point of difference that make him the ideal candidate. Neil Macdonald, the chief executive of ...

Benchmark-clinging passive investors risk meagre returns: Perpetual

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... identified four drivers behind elevated valuations - declining discount rates over three decades, four rounds of US Federal Reserve quantitative earnings during and after the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, lower tax rates, and more ...