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Is the Fed the victim of its own success?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
... Friday's trading - down from this year's high of 2.07% posted in January. This could also be due to higher real US interest rates. Relatively higher bond yields plus lower inflation lifts real interest rates - measured by the difference between the yield ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... next couple of years to a little above 3%." Moreover, while the RBA acknowledged that "further increases in US interest rates are expected and there is no longer an expectation of additional monetary easing in other major economies," policy accommodation ...

L1 Capital fund recommended

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... increased interest in the product from advisers. "Equities will likely experience more volatility, given rising US interest rates and the more dramatic policy changes from the Trump administration. Our clients are looking for a product that can generate ...

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... would be able to push through its forecast three 25 bps rate hikes next year. However, expectations of higher US interest rates would further boost US dollar appreciation - slow the economy - and play straight into the hands of Trump's other policy - ...

Trump protectionism protects not the emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
... increase as their currencies depreciate against the greenback...not to mention the flow-on effect of higher US interest rates into the world market. The dearer greenback would also provide ouch number two. That is, emerging markets' depreciated currencies ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... plot" indicates one rate hike this year. Sure, sure... plotting the dots gives us greater certainty as to where US interest rates are headed. The same way the Fed forward guided you, I and Irene into four rate hikes this year at the start of 2016... ...

Value stocks at inflection point: Perennial

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... leading to a turnaround or rotation out of bond-proxy type stocks. Murray said one trigger would be a rise in US interest rates as defensive equities are often highly correlated to US bond rates. He added if the Australian dollar falls, offshore investors ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
... to improve over the next few months. Furthermore, developments in the commodity markets and the outlook for US interest rates are likely to take some pressure off the Australian dollar allowing the Reserve Bank to be patient." Australia wage price index ...

Magellan eyes 'exponential growth' from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... update to investors, Douglass was candid about predictions he made last year for a faster than expected rise in US interest rates which is so far yet to materialise. While it's likely Magellan will prove to be early to the bet rather than wrong, Douglass ...

RBA Gov on Fed lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... confident that, "It will be a gradual - a very small move and bear in mind we've been effectively at zero and US interest rates are still going to be extremely low even after whatever happens on Thursday. So the discussion will be the pace or the frequency ...