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Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... act on taper next Wednesday. The ECB's stress test is expected to be stressless and the Fed would not want to invoke anything that would re-rattle market nerves. Still, a number, a word, a phrase or a sentence on page 4 could bring an unwelcome surpr ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... weeks. You've seen those dreary headlines when Wall Street was wallowing in increased volatility and red ink. Almost anything and everything that could be blamed for the fall were blamed - growth (the slowness of it), deflation (the threat of it), ebola ...

Adviser Ratings website to launch paid options

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... ten." Godfrey Pembroke adviser Tony Bingham updated his profile today and invited his clients to rate him on the site. "Anything that allows people to have more exposure to what financial planning is about is a good thing," he said. To populate his profile ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... doesn't know where it is"! Doh! Well that made sense - Bloomberg's June headline, that is. If Economics 101 taught me anything it is this: Dearer oil prices raise the cost of business inputs and erodes disposable income, leading to lower household consumption ...

FEATURE: Big data and financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... think and express themselves and, above everything, it has changed the way people buy. Consumers want to be able to buy anything, at any time, through any device. Companies in all sectors are going to great lengths to meet this demand. The use of data ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... its purchasing managers' index (PMI) of manufacturing activity for September came in at 50.5, up from 50.2 in August. Anything above 50 indicates growth and anything below means a contraction. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index rose 5.151 points, or 0.1 per ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... disappointed; Apple's shares ended down 0.4 per cent. "Investors have come to expect game-changers from this company and anything short of that is a disappointment," he said. LONDON - European stock markets have slumped as investors took profits while ...

Brumbie: Misguided attacks on SMSFs, enough already

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... However, as time has gone on, I've realised the term "hedge fund" has morphed and twisted so much that it can mean almost anything to anybody, which means it actually means nothing. Instead, what we should fear is a force much more sinister: self-managed ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... into outright deflation, financial markets are just as happy that the European Central Bank (ECB) is doing something, anything, to counteract/reverse this state of affairs. Yes Virginia, it wasn't the ECB doing a Fed thing - announce quantitative easing ...

Who will buy NAB Asset Servicing?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... they were interested. NAB, meanwhile, said it "does not comment on market speculation." Given that no one wants to say anything, what do we know about the possible contenders? State Street The Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) reports ...