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A Fed surprise?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... conclusion of the US Federal Open Market Committee meeting (FOMC) tomorrow? If she does, then baby, that indeed would be a big surprise. Currently, majority of bets are for a rates lift-off in June, a few have their money for a September lift-off. But ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... changed was that between then and last week, the European Central Bank (ECB) QE'd and the Bank of Canada (BOC) announced a surprise rate cut. Ipso facto, the RBA could (must?) too. Why must our Canadian brethrens have all the fun? And besides, the RBA ...

Super Mario delivers huge stimulus package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
"I've got sunshine on a cloudy day... I guess you'd say What can make me feel this way?" Mario, Mario, Mario Talkin' 'bout Q-E Q-E. Yes Virginia, he did it. Super Mario brought sunshine to the financial markets on this, a cold and cloudy Frankfurt day. ...

Central bank surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... (RBI) lower its key interest rates last week. This week opened with the Danmarks Nationalbank - Denmark's central bank - surprise announcement of a 15bps reduction in its deposit rate to minus 0.2%. And to those speculating that the Danes would follow ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... sovereign bonds, to keep longer-term interest rates low. "They basically leaked the package for tomorrow, so some of the surprise for tomorrow got in the tape today," said Mace Blicksilver, director of Marblehead Asset Management. Blicksilver said earnings ...

What if SMSFs flocked to global equities in 2015?

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
Self-managed super funds (SMSF) are expected to buy $1 billion of Australian equities per month, but what if individual investors developed an appetite for global stocks at the expense of the local market? A Credit Suisse analysis of "Down-under surprises ...

China growth as Li likes it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... incomes - national per capita disposable income grew by 10.1% nominal and 8.0% adjusted for inflation. Given these, the surprise 11.9% increase in retail spending and 7.9% rise in industrial production in December becomes hardly surprising. We've gotten ...

That other surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
There's no question about it... the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) surprise move was the biggest story in the financial markets last week. So huge that it eclipsed everything else. It eclipsed the plunging oil price and the dropping copper price -- the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... Thursday its policy to hold down the value of the franc, which saw the currency soar. The SNB came under fire Friday for its surprise withdrawal of the floor of 1.20 francs to the euro, as the sharp rise of the currency threatens causing a slump in the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
The Australian sharemarket is lower in the wake of a surprise move by the Swiss central bank to strengthen its currency. "We're all digesting the shock of the moves in the Swiss franc overnight - that's the talk of all the trading desks," CMC Markets ...