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Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... not gonna offer you high rates anytime soon... buy another country's currency... like say, Australia or the UK or the eurozone. All three central banks met and deliberated on their respective monetary policies last week. All three kept interest rates ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... had the Fed's policy announcement and America's first quarter GDP growth update not drowned out the latest reading on eurozone inflation. And it was good - well, sort of. Euro area inflation edged up to 0.7% in the 12 months to April from the four year ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... unemployment rate still at a high 11.9%... and this, despite the trouble in neighbouring Ukraine and Russia. Similarly, the Eurozone's manufacturing PMI remains in expansion territory (53.0 in March), prompting Markit Economics' Chris Williamson to note ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... 0.80 per cent at 4,426.72 points, just down from its highest point since early September 2008. The Markit Economics' Eurozone Composite Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for March stood at 53.0, down from February's 53.2. The 28-nation bloc PMI stood at ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... against the dollar on heavy selling after the European Central Bank hinted at a further loosening of monetary policy in the eurozone to avert deflation, traders said. HONG KONG - Asia's markets were mixed, with Japanese shares boosted by a weaker yen ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... Governing Council member Josef Makuch said the bank was prepared to combat deflationary risks threatening the recovery in the eurozone. US home-price index, the S&P/Case-Shiller report, showed home prices in the 20 biggest cities in January rose for ...

Bottoms up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... risk to Japanese growth after the consumption tax is lifted from 5% to 8% next month, and threatening deflation in the eurozone, among others. The positive correlation between the uptrend in the S&P 500 index and growth in the US Federal Reserve's total ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... looking beyond the Ukraine crisis to better-than-expected US jobs data and the likelihood of stronger growth for the eurozone this year. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ended the day 0.19 per cent higher at 6,788.49 points and the CAC 40 in Paris climbed ...

Never good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... - shows the US economy grew by 2.4% in the final quarter of 2013 (remember this is an annualised rate of growth); the eurozone by 1.1%; the UK by 2.9%; and Japan by 1.1%. Australia's annualised growth rate? It's 3.2% -- right smack on trend and the fastest ...

Fund managers expect clients to turn aggressive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... years, the majority of managers expect the world's largest economies to experience mild growth, with the exception of the Eurozone where they expect unemployment to remain in the low double digits in the short-term and at a relatively high 9.5% in the ...