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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... BOJ (Bank of Japan)," Mr Shamu said. "Overall, it seems the global economy are hoping for some cheap funds from central banks to keep things going." Telstra was the largest company to go ex-dividend on Wednesday and shed 17 cents, or three per cent to ...

Stagflation is real in Brazil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... after trading as high 2,005.04 points while we slept.... "the only explanation I can find is the love it's found" in central banks' forward guidance of easy money going forward. But it's not only Wall Street that's benefitting, Brazil's stock market ...

Voya appoints head of emerging market debt

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... Investors are thinking about the best ways to be positioned in the market, especially in light of the next moves by central banks around the world. Voya IM's active decision-making process is focused on seeking out the best investments from a broad landscape ...

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... unemployment is at the heart of the macro dynamics that shape short- and medium-term inflation, meaning it also affects central banks. Indeed, even when there are no risks to price stability, but unemployment is high and social cohesion at threat, pressure ...

Fear me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... 20 November 2008? You, me and Dupree know the reason behind investors' relative complacency do we not? It's the central banks and their commitment to benevolence towards financial markets. Never mind the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan that ...

Another October to remember?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... understand if you're sick of reading this - as I am typing it - but this would be the state of play for as long as central banks provide more than psychological support to the financial markets. Don't worry, go shopping. They'll let us know when the ...

New compass needed for global economy: BIS

NATHALIE OLOF-ORS, AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... needed," Claudio Borio, who heads BIS's monetary and economic unit, insisted to reporters ahead of the report launch. Central banks' bid to help spark growth, by, among other things, slashing interest rates, has helped create more appetite for short-term ...

S&P 500: 22 corrections in 6 months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... arrives) for these same warnings keep the markets' exuberance from becoming irrational.... and then we have the central banks watching the markets watch the central banks watch the markets. If you think the world's biggest central banks - after spending ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... underline the why's and the wherefore's - and this is, what I've been typing so many times in the past - the kindness of central banks (and the politburo, in China's case). The CB's are in no hurry to lift interest rates. They would not lift a finger ...

The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... highest in three years. You, I and Irene know how we got here. We got here through the kindness of the world's biggest central banks - ZIRP (zero interest rate policy), QE (quantitative easing) and now... NIRP (negative interest rate policy).... and ...