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China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... year to July from 26.1% in the previous month. But the PBOC is not letting up. According to Forbes magazine, "On Friday night, the PBOC announced some selective easing measures designed to encourage loans to small business and the agriculture sector. ...

All about the slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... indices were enough to take Wall Street up again after getting knocked down the previous day through to the open of last night's trading activity... and then the dip buyers pounced. But to quote Popeye (toot toot), "enough is enough and enough is too ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... refinancing operations" (TLTRO) aimed at giving both the euro area's economic growth and inflation more oomph. Given last night's disappointing inflation numbers, Super Mario might just have to make good on his promise. Eurostat reported that the region's ...

Dying in social media: adviser's next big nightmare

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
Clients' presence on several social media platforms, with multiple accounts and passwords, is set to become a nightmare for financial advisers specialising in estate planning, as they will be forced to deal with the person's digital footprint after ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
By all indications, Wall Street should have closed on the hop last night, but it didn't. The S&P 500 index ended practically unchanged - up 0.01% -- despite the FOMC announcing it's steady as she goes (as expected) and the economy rebounding in the ...

Dip-buying pays

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... unchanged overnight. Sure, sure there's still plenty of things to worry about on Wall Street. The latest of which is last night's report that US pending home sales fell by a bigger-than-expected 1.1% in June (this follows last week's news of an 8.1% ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... said. The US Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 0.72 per cent while the broad-based S&P 500 dropped 0.48 per cent on Friday night, following surprisingly weak earnings reports from Amazon and Visa, in particular. "Investors are waiting to take cues from ...

Wall Street snubs the IMF

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... Outlook Update". Yet Wall Street appeared to have missed it - the S&P 500 index even closed at another record high last night - especially the part where the IMF trimmed the US economy's 2014 growth forecast to 1.7% from 2.0% in June from 2.8% in April. ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... 1145 AEST on Thursday. "It's just mixed news across the board. A lot of materials stocks are struggling after a fairly poor night for commodities," Mr Shamu said. "It's the market trying to balance out a lot of factors and is just being cautious ahead ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... 1145 AEST on Thursday. "It's just mixed news across the board. A lot of materials stocks are struggling after a fairly poor night for commodities," Mr Shamu said. "It's the market trying to balance out a lot of factors and is just being cautious ahead ...