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When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... presentations are now available to download on FSiTV. Chris Probyn, chief economist at $3 trillion investment giant State Street Global Advisors kickstarted the forum with an unflinching view on Europe. "It's dead in the water," he said, predicting that ...

Think of China as the new America

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... Financial Services Council chief economist James Bond, Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake and State Street Global Advisors chief economist Christopher Probyn. Global growth was the economists' main point of focus during the debate. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following a positive lead from Wall Street. At 0823 AEST on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 13 points at 5,553. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... Draghi's comments followed a call by the OECD to overcome its reluctance and undertake quantitative easing given the very weak state of the eurozone economy and the risk of damaging deflation as inflation is running at just 0.4 per cent. The euro tumbled ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open slightly higher after Wall Street gained more than one per cent following the Bank of Japan's surprise stimulus announcement ignited a rally on global stock exchanges. At 0818 AEST on Monday, the December share ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... close to 2%... We will discuss tomorrow how we can continue to get closer to that aim". As for the BOJ, it's still in a state of denial despite indications that the April consumption tax hike (from 5% to 8%) is doing to the economy what it did back in ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to again open lower after Wall Street lost more than one per cent following mixed US economic data. At 0815 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was down 35 points at 5,287. Locally, in economic ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... breather, enjoy the view and smile (or LOL) at all the naysayers who bet, 'nay, you'll never make it'. That's exactly what Wall Street did overnight. The S&P 500 index hardly budged - up 0.01% -- to close at 2,000.12 points after touching the round 2,000 ...

Arrows and more arrows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... assets overnight -- the same way increased geo-political risk sent them away the night before. Geo-political risk down, Wall Street up. The S&P 500 even breached the record high it reached on 3 July (1985.44) in intra-day trade to 1986.24 points but ...