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Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... could lead them to pull funds out of Australia without warning, perhaps to cover margin calls in a tumbling Chinese stock market, as was seen in July. The consequences for Australia could be disastrous. The latest edition of FInancial Standard is out ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
"Danger, Will Robinson!" Danger! Danger! Pick a stock market, any stock market, chances are it is now in correction territory - Dow, Stoxx 600, FTSE-100, All Ords, Strait Times, Jakarta Composite, Taiex, KLCI, PSEi - or in a bear market -- Hang Seng ...

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... concerns." And this was before the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) devaluation of the yuan. "While the recent Chinese stock market decline seemed to have had limited implications to date for the growth outlook in China, several participants noted that ...

Bangkok bombs and Malaysia's terror

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... three-year low of 206.8 billion ringgit, central bank data show" and "foreign investors pulled $3.3 billion" out of the stock market". Don't blame 'em given the host of problems currently plaguing Malaysia. The economy is slowing - GDP growth is down ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Following on from China's "rule of three", the ECB has three of its own. The minutes of the European Central Bank's (ECB) 15-16 July meeting revealed the three things that are keeping the governing council members awake at night - Greece, China and ...

Titans Fund added to Macquarie Wrap

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... benefitting from secular high growth global megatrends which are difficult to gain exposure to via the Australia stock market," Insync Funds Management chief investment officer Monik Kotecha. "We are very pleased to be added onto the Macquarie Wrap platform ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after falls on Wall Street following a mixed batch of earnings reports and another big decline by technology giant Apple. At 0815 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was down ...

RBA to deliver nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
... knee-jerk rate cut protection/insurance, the fresh negative out of China should be no worries. By the by, the Greek stock market re-opened last night - after its five week closure - the Athens SE general index dropped by as much as 23% before closing ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... increased volatility in the financial markets in June and July due to the uncertainties created by Grexit and China's stock market collapse. Then again, the worsened sentiment on job expectations is consistent and explains that another disappointing ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after falls on Wall Street where weakness in petroleum-linked equities weighed on stocks following poor earnings from ExxonMobil and Chevron and a drop in oil prices At 0820 AEST on Monday, the September ...