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Industry veterans recognised

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
A number of financial services industry veterans were recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list this weekend. The 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours included investment professionals, financial advisers, banking professionals and superannuation ...

Liquidnet acquires fintech

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... the developer of a proprietary system that measures the market impact of publicly available information including central bank communications and corporate communications such as earnings calls and press releases to produce analytics that asset managers ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
Crude oil prices have dropped, turning this year's bull market into a bear market. Oil prices rallied nearly 50% from January to April this year on the back of the Fed's pause; China's stimulus measures and expectations of continued easy ...

Chief economist update: The rate cut Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... record low of 1.25% at 1430 hours (AEST) today. For sure, there are (very) few dissenters arguing the Australian central bank should steel its nerves and stay put, but the widespread consensus is the RBA will announce a 25 basis point reduction in interest ...

Chief economist update: ECB exit proves premature

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
If there's anything that's 100% certain, it is that the European Central Bank (ECB) will keep current interest rate settings unchanged - repo at 0.00%; marginal lending facility at 0.25%; deposit facility at -0.40%. Although, given the mounting ...

Chief economist update: The greatest challenge of our time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
Inflation is dead! Bond markets celebrate! News headlines have picked up on the fall and fall in the yield offered by 10-year US Treasuries. The yield closed at 2.24% overnight, down from 2.26% the day before - the lowest since September 2017. But the ...

Chief economist update: Glass half-full or US recession on the way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
"It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma..." Sir Winston Leonard Churchill may be describing Russia's intentions and interests when he made this now famous quote back in 1939 (before he became UK Prime Minister 1940-1945) but Churchill's ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... clear decision. A wide variety of factors can influence exchange rates, including government purchases of currency or central bank moves, and labeling a country a currency manipulator involves ascribing intent." Trump has to start somewhere before he ...

Chief economist update: RBA to take rates to fresh record low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe provided the clearest indication yet that the Australian central bank is poised to cut interest rates, potentially at its June 4 meeting. The transcript of Lowe's speech - titled 'The Economic ...

Chief economist update: Low unemployment, low wages growth conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
"Annual wages in seasonally adjusted terms grew 2.3% for the third quarter in a row. The main contributors to growth over the quarter were regularly scheduled wage rises in the health care and social assistance and education and training industries ...