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Better to own or to rent investments?

JOHN DYALL  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... as their major source of income, prefer higher inflation. The issue with aging populations and inflation is that central banks will try to fight the secular trend to lower inflation, focused as they are on driving inflation to 'target levels'. "From ...

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... diverging globally and the US Federal Reserve is gearing up for its first rate rise since 2006. The firm says the central banks of Europe and Japan are pushing the monetary accelerator while commodities exporters such as Canada and Australia are cutting ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... corporates or sovereigns. A complicating factor here is that the rise in US interest rates looks set to occur while the central banks of Japan and Europe are continuing an aggressive easing of monetary policy via balance sheet measures. The combined ...

Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... A£75 billion and the Fed's still re-investing the proceeds of its maturing securities - lift off or not. And those central banks that aren't expanding their balance sheets... they've made (are making) money cheaper to spend money to make money. China's ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... night as low interest rates continue to push investors towards shares. Investors also were gaining confidence with central banks, in the US especially and Australia, pursuing growth at all costs, said IG market strategist Stan Shamu. "Investors are quite ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... 'patient' without panicking the markets. Having typed "forward guidance" reminded me of the man who brought it first to central banks' lexicon - Bank of England's (BOE) Canadian central bank import, Mark Carney. Mark Carney has not lifted a finger - ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... to raise the fed funds rate sometime soon. This is bad for some, but good for the "others" - specifically, those central banks that want all other currencies more expensive than their own - those in the race to the bottom. As at last count, around 24 ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... started its exponential climb. We all know why? The US is "expected" to raise interest rates one day while the other central banks are still on the race to the bottom with the ECB and the BOJ digging even deeper and the BOE continues to maintain the ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... neighbours. The very same reason for the on-going race to the bottom among many - and still counting - other world central banks as they try to export their weak economic and deflationary conditions to Uncle Sam. Well, Bob's your uncle... it's working ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... even below Premier Li's new like - growth of 7.0%. Is China about to QE fire with QE of its own? Actions by other central banks may have left it no choice. It's losing the currency war. Much had been reported about the rise and rise of the US dollar ...