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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... (1.8%). In year-on-year terms, euro area construction output rose by 3.1% in July after a 0.6% gain in the previous month. Russian retail sales Despite the sharp improvement in Russia's labour market - the unemployment rate fell to an 11-month low of ...

Ghosts of emerging markets past not worth the risk

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
... recently we've seen countries such as Brazil and Russia... we've seen how the impact of lower oil prices has decimated the Russian economy... how corruption in Brazil is rampant. "All the old ghosts of emerging markets that were there 10 years ago have ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... the year to February from 1.3% in the previous month while the core PCE inflation measure remained unchanged at 1.7%. Russian GDP Russia continues to shrink, falling by 2.7% in the year to February (the same as the previous month), marking the 14th straight ...

Hedge funds suffer worst year since 2011

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... December, down 4.48% for the month following the steep downturn in oil prices and the consequent double-digit losses in Russian equities.

Oil slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
No more quotas. No more targets. No more ceilings. This was OPEC's (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) decision at their meeting in Vienna last Friday - the decision that sent oil prices down to 6-year lows. WTI oil dropped by 5.8% to US$37.65 ...

Chill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
"Chill out!" Although it could also apply, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) chief Glenn Stevens wasn't advising Russian President Vladimir Putin against having Turkey for Thanksgiving in retaliation for Turkey's - the country - downing of a Russian warplane ...

Extensions - What the Greeks await and the Russians hate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... extension of sanctions on Russia through January, calling the measure self-defeating and accusing the West of crass anti-Russian bias by timing the decision to the nation's commemoration of the Soviet victims of World War II." The news intensified the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
... The US gains followed a strong day for European equities after the announcement of a peace roadmap between Kiev and pro-Russian rebels. Still Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and others cautioned that implementing the agreement would not be easy. ...

Ruble trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
Chances are there won't be any "shirt-fronting" happening in Beijing when Prime Minister Tony Abbott faces-off with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing this week. Tony doesn't have to, Russia's very own central bank have done it for him days ...

Rejoice for the A$ has fallen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... shield Australia from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and the collapse of Long-term Capital Management (LTCM) and the Russian debt default in 1998. It was the dollar-A's drop from around US$0.65 in early 2000 to US$0.49 that saved the country from the ...