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Cheap talk, cheaper money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
They talk the talk but aren't walking the talk. This is what I walk out with after poring through the American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) sentiment and asset allocation surveys conducted in the last week of March. In its 2 April report ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... major consumer of raw materials. In London, BHP Billiton's share price tumbled 3.25 per cent to 1,416.00 pence. Anglo American dived 2.28 per cent to 998.70 pence, Antofagasta dropped 2.50 per cent to 722.00 pence and Rio Tinto shed 0.81 per cent to ...

US schools should teach finlit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... address this challenge, SIFMA believes financial literacy and general investment education need to become part of the American education curriculum." However, introducing such topics into school curriculum would face stiff opposition from conservative ...

Another cut's in the mail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... A go-slow Fed would reduce the risk of derailing the US recovery. As RBA Gov Glenn remarked in his speech before the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia last Friday, "...a healthy US economy should not be underestimated as a driver of business ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... 5,945. In local economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is slated to speak at an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia lunch in Melbourne. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Thursday ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... divergent US central bank policy vs. "others" is doing to the US dollar and its potential negative consequences for the American economy. But this morning's report from Bloomberg, "Beware the $300 Billion Shift Into Treasuries From Japan" made me think ...

"Patient" is the (key)word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
Say whaaa? Wall Street up - big time (well, relatively) - on the same night that crude oil prices went for another leg down. What ever happened to the headlines of not so long ago that went, "US equities sell off as oil prices tumbles" or something ...

IFM acquires US$5.7 billion highway

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... position, long concession duration and inflation and GDP-linked tolling regime." "ITR is strategically important to the North American transportation network. We are committed to maintaining the asset to a high standard that provides maximum availability ...

Baird to launch Sydney not-for-profit "fintech hub"

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... following a Pepper Property Advisory tender process. Foundation corporate partners for the project are Allens, Amazon, American Express, AMP, ANZ, Capital Markets CRC, CIFR, FINSIA, Finzsoft, HSBC, IAG, Intel, KPMG, Macquarie Group, Oracle, Suncorp Bank ...

Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
Yes. No. Maybe. I don't know. This is dear Aunt Janet's answer to the "lift-off" question that everyone has been waiting for - and speculating on -- since the Fed completed its QE taper back in October last year. There was plenty of information in the ...