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Bitcoin bubble will burst in 2018: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... The latest Financial Standard spot poll result sees an end to the bitcoin bubble in 2018. About 40% of respondents are betting the days of the bitcoin phenomenon are numbered, while 29% predict Australia will lift interest rates by 25 percentage points. ...

Charter Hall launches fund, backs consumer spending

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
Property fund manager Charter Hall is betting on Australians to maintain their spending patterns with the launch of a direct, multi-sector fund targeted at precincts tied to consumer staples. The Charter Hall Direct Diversified Consumer Staples Fund ...

TelstraSuper commits to innovation

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
TelstraSuper is betting on disruptive technology being developed at Australian and global universities after partnering with intellectual property commercialisation company IP Group. Australia's largest corporate superannuation fund has placed $35 million ...

Three steps and yields stumble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
... the start of 2017. These figures have reduced the odds for a Fed rate hike next month but financial markets are still betting on one with the probability tracked at 70% (from 80%). But wouldn't this further inflationary pressures and lower inflationary ...

The Fed lady and the Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
... butcher, the baker and the candlestick-maker as to her intentions at the other side of the New Year? Last time I looked, betting's now doubled to four rate hikes in 2017 from two. Don't blame you for feeling a sense of dA(C)jA vu because this was more ...

CPI says RBA no go on Melbourne Cup Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
... while November appears to be a cut and dried deal for a nil rate cut - and perhaps even December 2016 - some are still betting for at least one more at the other side of the New Year. This may very well be but to use Janet Yellen's words, it depends ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... The stock markets should be down massively but investors seem to have been hypnotized that nothing can go wrong." He's betting on gold and gold miners. Bond market king Bill Gross echoes Gundlach view, "If we see fiscal stimulation in Japan China and ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... billion in April - as well as putting downward pressure on US inflation. The longer end of the US bond market appears to be betting on this - with yields on 10-year US Treasuries dropping to 1.36% from 1.74% pre-Brexit and 2.27% at the start of this ...

Brexit - the Australian connection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... lift interest rates until early 2018. MarketWatch even reports that "...a minority of fed-funds futures traders are now betting that the U.S. central bank could actually cut interest rates at its next meeting, in July". Another race to the bottom could ...

Another standout economic performance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
... after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its latest tally on the country's national accounts. Consensus betting was for Australian real GDP to slow by 0.4% in the quarter ended December 2015, taking the year-over-year growth down to 2.5%. ...