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The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... you" just doesn't apply to Ben Bernanke right now. Not with the trashing the equity markets, the bond markets and the commodity markets -- from New York to Rio and old London town - are getting right here, right now. My oh my, after all that arduous ...

FIIG appoints joint heads of intermediaries

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... in Melbourne, worked for eight years at investment bank UBS, most recently in London as executive director managing commodity index trading. Prior to that, she worked in convertible bond and sub debt proprietary trading. Gross, who will be based in Sydney ...

Aust shares weaken ahead of US Fed meeting

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... also weaker, with BHP Billiton shedding 48 cents to $32.43 and Rio Tinto losing $1.07 to $52.91, following a drop in commodity prices. "There's some news coming out of China that they might be looking to try and do something about their overcapacity ...

The sky is falling downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
... signs are there - weak business confidence, weak consumer sentiment, weak everything related to growth...including weak commodity prices and weakening China. And the more these 'experts' play Chicken Little, the truer this tale of woe and dire predictions ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
Australian shares have opened half a percentage point weaker as falling commodity prices hit mining stocks, and banking shares rally. The local market has followed Wall Street lower, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the broad-based S&P 500 and ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... biggest loss for the index since April 15, when markets plunged after worries about an economic slowdown in China caused commodity prices to drop sharply. Some traders said the sudden afternoon swoon came as large investors had to rearrange their holdings ...

Downswing in bond yields clear path for Absolute Return Fixed Income

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... buying the US story. Instead we pair the Mexican peso with a short on a basket of currencies in economies exposed to commodity prices such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada," he explained. "This year the Aussie dollar has fallen significantly so we've ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... stronger than it was at the start of the year, respectively. For others...it's because the correlation between the A$ and commodity prices has returned. The CRB commodity price index is down 4.3% this year - not too far from the A$'s own performance ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... Australian market has opened slightly higher despite falls in resources stocks. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said commodity prices continued to fall overnight and he expected resources stocks to drop during the day, especially gold. "Commodities remained ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... Macquarie were dragging down the market as both went ex-dividend. "It's a bit of a weak start, which was expected as commodity prices were a little bit mixed over the weekend and Westpac and Macquarie going ex-dividend was always going to hurt us," he ...