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AMP Capital hires new director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
AMP Capital has appointed a new director. Earlier in October, Peter Varghese was appointed to AMP's board, and will now take up another position on the board of its investment management subsidiary. He recently stepped down from his role as the Secretary ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
Germany trade balance Germany's trade surplus expanded by 2.6% to €20.0 billion in August - in line with market expectations - from July's €19.5 billion surplus as exports grew by much more than imports over the month, 5.4% versus 3.0%. Germany's ...

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just published its October World Economic Outlook (WEO) report and true to form, it's once more taking down earlier more optimistic forecasts. In October 2015, the IMF saw world economic output growing brightly ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
Australia trade balance Australia's trade deficit narrowed by 5.0% to A$2.01 billion in August from A$2.12 billion in July (revised from A$2.41 billion), Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data show. This is better than market expectations for a ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
Australia ANZ job ads The latest ANZ job ads survey shows that the total number of job advertisements fell by 0.3% in the month of September following the strong 1.7% jump in the previous month. The year-on-year growth in job ads slowed to 3.7% last ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
US GDP The final estimate of US real GDP showed the economy expanding at an annualised rate of 1.4% in the second quarter. This represents an upgrade from the second estimate's 1.1% growth and better than expectations for a 1.3% gain. While personal ...

No new monetary policy moves on horizon: AB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... the recent risk-off trade. "The countries that have resorted to negative rates to date - Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and Japan - wanted to create a disincentive for banks and savers to hold money on deposit. In theory, the liquidity would be diverted ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
US durable goods orders The latest update on total new durable goods orders could easily be taken as a positive for, despite a flat (0% growth) outcome in August from July, this was better than market expectations for a 1.9% decline and could be attributed ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... markets leading up to the 21st of September. But scrooge was nowhere to be seen - exclaiming bah! humbug! - when the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) turned up on the 21st of September bearing gifts. The Nikkei-225 index jumped nearly ...

Asset owners, managers not prepped for blockchain

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... can achieve the necessary scale for supporting the needs of the financial services industry, compared to Hong Kong (67%), Japan (53%) and Singapore (40%). The paper also discusses the impact the wide adoption of blockchain may have, with 75% of those ...