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Now is the time to accommodate the sellers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
... be little effected by the chief concerns impacting the market today - namely, a slowing of the Chinese economy, a falling oil price and turmoil in the Middle East. "We don't buy markets, we buy businesses. Right now we can buy businesses being offered ...

Down but upbeat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
Thank heavens for 'Australia Day'! The holiday saved us, Australians all, from being whipsawed by the big swings in oil prices and on Wall Street. But there's even greater reason to remain optimistic - if not rejoice - for even before we downed our ...

Doom(ed) rebound?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... dive the week before that. It's a bounce from oversold conditions. It's short-covering. It's the stupendous 10% rebound in oil prices to above US$30 a barrel - looks like "money managers in the market conceded that matters had gone too far" even before ...

It's "whatever it takes" time again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
... fight against inflation, justifying its less-than-expected "go slow" on stimulus policy announcement last 3 December, crude oil comes along. Though minimal, latest Eurozone inflation figures show consumer prices moving in the right direction. Continued ...

Fed's plan slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... inflation expectations do not operate in a vacuum. When the Fed met and decided to lift after their 15-16 FOMC meeting, crude oil prices were trading at around the mid-US$30 a barrel mark and Fed Yellen revealed to us (at the time) about her confidence ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... Two weeks into the new year and they're still MIA. Given recent events, they appear to be drowning - drowning in a sea of oil, that is....and there'll be more gushing out of the grounds soon, out of Iran as Friday's speculations turned to fact over the ...

Hedge funds suffer worst year since 2011

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... Russia-dedicated hedge fund strategies posted the worst returns in December, down 4.48% for the month following the steep downturn in oil prices and the consequent double-digit losses in Russian equities.

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... form of the Saudi-Iranian diplomatic row and reports of North Korean H-bomb testing; continued declines in the price of crude oil and most other commodities; and, anxiety over the trajectory of the Fed's interest rate policy and its impact on the US ...

Four steps up, four steps down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... 1 to 3 percent target range, mainly due to the earlier strength in the New Zealand dollar and the 65 percent fall in world oil prices since mid-2014." This last point - the one re inflation - appears to be the most significant factor underlying the RBNZ's ...

Oil slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... OPEC's (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) decision at their meeting in Vienna last Friday - the decision that sent oil prices down to 6-year lows. WTI oil dropped by 5.8% to US$37.65 per barrel and the price of Brent oil slipped by 5.3% ...