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Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... for David's mom, good news for the FTSE. The FTSE-100 jumped 2.5% as pre-election jitters of a hung parliament - where nothing gets done - as indicated by exit polls proved grossly wrong. The Conservative Party headed by incumbent PM Cameron, instead ...

Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... be the same factor that would keep the Fed lift-off at bay for a while longer. And then, there's the ECB and the BOJ - nothing's stopping them from printing more and ensuring that yields stay low for longer. This, or all the money printing they have ...

May cut, may not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... Looking at the Australian economic indicators that have been released since the Australian central bank's April meeting, nothing much has changed. Au contraire, some have even improved - unemployment rate, retail spending, business confidence and business ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... it crafts its forward guidance when its 2-day FOMC meeting concludes tomorrow. Yes, it's forward guidance for there is nothing in the stars pointing to a lift-off announcement when tomorrow comes. While a June lift-off remains in play, disappointing ...

Hockey slams Labor super tax proposal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... as he's going along. Last time he tried this, Treasury said it was un-implementable in various ways... Labor just does nothing about spending," he said. He denied any similarities to Labor's proposal in the arguments raised in his discussion paper, reiterating ...

CBA advisers ran from ASIC

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... a file-by-file process going back more than 10 years, and the file recording process was not good," he said. "There's nothing we would all like more than to get it done as quickly as we can, but we must get it right."

BOE no change, no worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
As expected, the Bank of England (BOE) decided to do nothing at its 9 April monetary policy meeting, stating that: "The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee at its meeting today voted to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5%. The Committee also voted to ...

Investors misunderstand smart beta: AXA IM

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... market capitalisation, such as volatility, earnings or book value. He says this definition is too simplistic. "There is nothing smart about coming up with a re-worked index and it does investors a disservice if they are led to believe that," Hurt said. ...

Majority slammed (again), equities dunked, A$ fouled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... assess the case for such action at forthcoming meetings." I've got no problem with that. It's the sensible thing to do. Nothing significant has happened and 'things' could change between now and the next meeting - or the next. Internationally, Wall Street ...

Tme to get fiscal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... worries, Australia still has one of the lowest in the world on both - we haven't maintained our AAA credit rating for nothing, you know. And now's the time to borrow when money's cheap as chips - at current bond yields, Australia can lock in a low interest ...