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Chief economist update: Australian bull market here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... little more push higher and sooner than soon, the All Ordinaries index would satisfy the technical definition of a bull market - a 20% rally from its nearest low - and onwards towards topping its record high of 6,853.57 points recorded on 1 November ...

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: Countdown to T-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... 6.9% in the black; the S&P/ASX 200 index is still 11.8% on the up; and China's CSE 300 index remains close to a bull market - up 19.6% - in spite of the heavy sell-off over the past few days. But as Murphy's Law dictates, "anything that can go ...

Chief economist update: AUD misdirection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
... prices. After dropping by 15.4% in 2018, the S&P GSCI commodity price index has rallied by 20.9% this year to date - a bull market if you will. While this would certainly improve Australia's terms of trade, the sharply weakening property market ...

Brookfield acquires 62% of Oaktree Capital

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
... Class A unitholders. Oaktree co-founder Howard Marks visited Sydney in late Octobe r. At the time, he said the current bull market was in a late stage but it could still go "up, sideways or down." He said while optimistic investors have pushed up asset ...

Chief economist update: Time to pig out on China shares?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... this year - enough to buy Luxembourg and Greenland, plus change. These would provide extra underpinning to the recent bull market in Chinese equities - Shanghai composite index up 20.1% this year to date; CSI 300 index up 24.6%; SSE-A share index up ...

Chief economist update: Trump tweets bull market back into China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
... year-to-date return up by 18.7% - it dropped by 24.6% in 2018 - but more importantly, it brought Chinese equities back into a bull market. The Shanghai Composite index is now up 20.2% above its nearest low recorded just a few weeks before on 3 January ...

Fidelity adds US equities exposure

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... complacent to the risks of overdoing a risk-on posture, but also not missing out on what may prove to be a last leg in this bull market," Bateman said in the February update.

Equity investors will struggle in 2019: Baur

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... US, Europe and Japan, he said. That competition is going to go away and middle-class wages may indeed be the next bull market, Baur said. Further, Baur forecasted the current state of the economy to be the longest expansion in US history and will continue ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
We might just be heading to witness once again the truth about the old adage on Wall Street that "a bull market doesn't die of old age, the Fed murders it." As expected, the US Federal Reserve raised the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 2.25%-2.5% ...