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Showing 441 - 450 of 2018 results for "Financial markets"

Industry expert to bolster Chi-X capabilities

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... market operations in 2014. Chi-X refers to Warton as an industry expert due to his over 30 years' experience in financial markets technology and software development in the financial markets industry. Chi-X experience rapid growth since launch - now ...

Chief economist update: Race to the bottom redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... bps rate cut. The Bank of Thailand (BOT) snipped 25 bps off its key policy interest rate to 1.50%, surprising financial markets which expected it to keep rates unchanged. This was the central bank's first interest rate cut since April 2015. The Reserve ...

Chief economist update: RBA heading to zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... May) makes it highly likely that it would announce another one (or two or three?) reduction in interest rates. Financial markets expect the RBA to cut interest rates by another 25 bps to 0.75% at its November 2019 meeting. While the RBA remains optimistic ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... implemented one of its greatest son's prescriptions and, for sure and for certain, it's gonna irritate Trump. Financial markets were shell-shocked after the People's Bank of China (PBOC) allowed the yuan to fall below the psychological threshold ...

London Stock Exchange in talks to buy Refinitiv

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
... deal. The deal would see the stock exchange buying Thomson Reuters' 45% stake in Refinitiv, a global provider of financial markets data and infrastructure that generated $6.3 billion in revenue last year. If the deal goes ahead, the LSE and Refinitiv ...

Active, passive investing continues to confuse: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... "surprising" survey results showed investor's return expectations had raised despite a challenging recent period in financial markets, however noted investors' tolerance for risk did not match the appetite for returns. About 86% of investors said long-term ...

Chief economist update: BOE flips tightening bias to easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... Monetary policy must address the consequences of such uncertainty for the behaviour of businesses, households and financial markets." "In some jurisdictions, the impact may warrant a near term policy response as insurance to maintain the expansion." ...

Chief economist update: The turn in Australia's cycle from vicious to virtuous

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... deliver back-to-back reductions in the official cash rate from 1.5% to 1.25% (in June) and to 1.0% (in July), with financial markets expecting at least one more rate reduction going forward. Latest economic releases both underscore and justify the RBA's ...

Chief economist update: The back-to-back rate cuts Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... unemployment at 5.2% in May, the RBA has further to go "before it sleeps", given its revised NAIRU estimate. Financial markets expect one (to 0.75%) or two (to 0.50%) more interest rate reductions would do it. But what does the time-tested Taylor Rule ...

Chief economist update: RBA justified to cut rates or not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
... think the RBA will announce a 25 bps reduction in interest rates at the conclusion of its July 2 board meeting. Financial markets, too, seem convinced, placing a 72% odds-on bet that the cash rate would be at 1% by Tuesday next week. But predictions ...