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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... its $US85 billion a month stimulus program. WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares retreated after the Australian central bank governor indicated he may cut rates to revive a flagging economy, driving up the kiwi dollar against its trans-Tasman counterpart ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release building approvals data for June on Tuesday. Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is scheduled to deliver a speech at a function in Sydney, and the Housing Industry Association publishes its ...

Post-Bernanke uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
"Facebook and BenO are now friends." This is what my 'friends' and 'friends of friends' would see on my Facebook status from this day onwards. For how could you not 'like' something that increases your wealth by as much as 31.6% in one single day? Facebook ...

Limbo of uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... 1.9% (from 2.7%) next year while at the same time warning of a 20% probability of a recession. There too was former RBA governor Bernie Fraser warning that the "good times have passed" for the Australian economy and "it is going to become tougher" and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... index futures contract was up 17 points at 4,858. In economic news on Wednesday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle is scheduled to attend the launch of the Funding Australia's Future Project hosted by the Australian ...

Guiding it forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013

Ghosts? What ghosts?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... results on US jobless claims and private payrolls indicate that the Fed could really, truly taper soon. And if ex-Fed governor Laurence Meyer is correct, it could be by this coming September. "They have made a decision virtually to go in September unless ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... on Wednesday would be the release of official retail sales figures for May, and a speech by Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens, Mr Lucas said. The RBA on Tuesday kept the cash rate on hold for another month at 2.75 per cent. "It will be ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... international trade in goods and services data, along with its retail trade figures for May. Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is schedule to speak at the Economic Society of Australia, while Vodafone Hutchison Australia chief executive ...

Oh how welcome thy voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... crunching credit in the world's second biggest economy. Ling Tao - no, not the Chinese beer (that's Tsingtao) but the vice governor of the PBOC's Shanghai branch - announced to the world that, "Currently, the liquidity risk in the banking system is under ...