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YBR boosts revenue by 288%

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... the benefits of our key strategies, particularly with regard to the diversification of distribution exposure and scale economies," said YBR executive chairman Mark Bouris.

I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... currency war by any other name is... While the BOJ and the ECB are QE-ing according to them, in the name of reviving their economies and fighting deflation, their 'non-conventional' policies are weakening the yen and the euro versus everybody else. The ...

Government seeks further Asia Funds Passport consultation

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... refined some of the arrangements. The latest consultation period closes on 10 April 2015. Following this consultation, economies who decide that they want to be passport member economies will work to finalise the arrangements in 2015 with a view to the ...

Investor sentiment shifting overseas

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... change sentiment quickly if their mood shifts to worrying about the potential impacts of a downturn. Minack said national economies are meanwhile realigning due to high debt levels, demographic changes that slow growth, inequality that blunts monetary ...

Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... facilitated all these "surprise" easing actions, these central banks policy moves should also help strengthen their respective economies... hopefully in time before the Fed's big move becomes a reality. She'll be right! At least, that's what the VIX ...

Currency warriors, mount horses and draw swords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... from others joining in on the currency war. But they better produce positive effects - and soon - on their respective economies before America's own is beggared by their collective actions. Already the strong US dollar is souring investor sentiment. ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... speculate that the PBOC's move is a reaction to other central banks implementing policies designed to shore up their own economies - mainly currency depreciation - but at the same time "beggars their neighbour" by exporting their weakness and deflation ...

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

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... Meanwhile, Bob Baur, chief global economist at Principal Global Investors, compared what's happening to the markets and economies today to a 15th century spring-driven clock. Like the clock, it would be hard to control the unwinding of the markets. However ...

When Harry met Sally syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... And by the looks of it, every central banker is looking to America to import the ills and evils in their respective economies. But with the latest stats showing that US real GDP grew by a lower than expected 2.6% in the fourth quarter against expectations ...

Economists divided over Europe growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... monetary union, they got what they could get. But the Germans wouldn't go along with a fiscal union." Today, "major economies like France and Italy are dreadfully uncompetitive compared to Germany," but they can't compensate with fiscal expansion, Probyn ...