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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... 2.5 in December before the Fed announced QE taper in December of the same year. It read 4.4 and 4.7 in September and October of 2014 before QE ended in October of the same year. The LMCI was at 2.6 in November and 1.8 in December 2015 when the Fed lifted ...

Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... could turn on a dime - lift-off expectations in September is one disappointing employment report away from becoming October of November or 2016... sending the A$ back up. And I don't have to remind you about the gyrations in ore prices. Instead we, Australians ...

ASIC suspends advice firm for three months

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... ASIC found that the firm failed to lodge true and fair annual accounts, together with an auditor's report before 31 October of the relevant year, and failed to report this significant breach. The group also failed to ensure it had adequate financial ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... 166% -- from a low of US$15.43 a barrel in June 1990 (before Saddam's adventure in Kuwait) to a high of US$41.07 by October of the same year (as Coalition forces prepared to kick Saddam's butt). Gulf War II in 2003 sent oil prices on the hop by 49.37% ...

Standard Life Investments appoints Australia chairman

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
... ABN AMRO Group in Australia and New Zealand until 2006 and a member of the group's advisory council until 2012. In October of the same year he was appointed chairman of Barclays, Australia and New Zealand in October of the same year. "We recognise the ...

Calendar says buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... the "sell in May" adage on Wall Street because historically, the stock market offers poorer returns between May and October of the calendar year. The flipside of this is to buy in November - hey, that's two weeks away - and hold till April. Reuters printed ...

Problems, problems, problems

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... problems in the investment landscape are multiplying.A Statistics show that September is the worst month for equities and October of course, is when major equity market crashes happened. "Worries, worries pile up on my head..." Fed taper worries that ...

Insider selling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... debate began to spiral out of control." That time the S&P 500 fell by more than 18% to a low of 1099.23 points on 3 October of the same year before recovering. And this too courtesy of Mark: Sell-to-buy ratio for NYSE-listed stocks 2012: Early May high ...

Investor confidence hits 14 year low

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... professor Kenneth Froot, who co-developed the index. "This month's reading is 1.5 points below the previous low set in October of 2008," said Froot. "Institutional investors continue to display a pronounced, almost secular desire to reallocate away from ...

Goldman Sachs retains 'highly recommended" rating

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... 'Highly Recommended' status by Zenith Investment Partners after a management reshuffle following the retirement in October of their Australia chief investment officer Andrew Cooke. Goldman Sachs have subsequently announced that their existing Fixed Income ...