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Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
'Twas raining data updates over the past 24 hours. Eco stats and surveys flooded cyberspace unrelentingly, one after the other, and yet near-term visibility remains almost... invisible. Take your pick Virginia. There are numbers to back up the "we're ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market is set to open higher despite weakness on overseas markets after Spain said it was not preparing a request for a bailout loan. Investors have been anticipating that the Spanish government would ask for help for nearly ...

MIR Investment Management re-brands

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... ambitions. "As a specialist boutique we felt it important to rebrand the firm following the recent corporate changes, to signal to the market our commitment to Asia and China, where we feel our unique investment approach will continue to be successful" ...

BlackRock to focus on model-based fixed income inv

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... fixed income professionals to ignore the views of investors in other asset classes especially equity markets which may signal manifestations of market sentiment. Brodsky said model-based fixed income investing takes the 'emotion' out of investing and ...

Why QE3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... - it's open-ended. The Fed won't finish until there is "broad-based growth in jobs and economic activity that generally signal sustained improvement in labour market conditions and declining unemployment". Not only that, this time the Fed will provide ...

Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... he'll do "whatever it takes", in his case, until there is "broad-based growth in jobs and economic activity that generally signal sustained improvement in labour market conditions and declining unemployment". And on the seventh day, the game changed. ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... interest rate policy. If not, "It is even possible that the committee would adopt Chicago Fed President Evans' proposal to signal no rate hikes until the unemployment rate has fallen to a specific level (in Evans' version 7%) unless underlying inflation ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... 4,358.0 points. NEW YORK - US stocks fell as investors digested an unexpected decline in consumer credit, another weak signal on consumer spending, and Apple plummeted ahead of its expected iPhone 5 launch. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday ...

Faith in monetary policy spawns new investment theme

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
AllianceBernstein's global thematic investment team has adopted a new theme focused on zero interest rate policy designed to focus on the impacts of monetary policy as the fiscal driver is lost. Fallout from the GFC resulted in heightened cyclicality ...

AMP Capital continues restructure

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
AMP Capital's investment specialist team will no longer operate as an independent unit within the business from October, a further step in the company's restructure. Investment specialists operated as middlemen between clients and fund managers. They ...