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Trump to boost Aussie commodities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... transparent vehicles for their fixed income exposure. Only four of the major categories experienced outflows - European, Japan, China and Asia ex-Japan equity ETFs."

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... rates and China's economy was heading for hard landing. These two factors alone (never mind what's happening in Europe and Japan) sent financial markets - equity, bond, commodity and currency - into a tailspin. It wasn't a happy New Year welcome to 2016. ...

CBA finances wind farm construction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... wind farms. The bank is co-financing the project with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, CWP Renewables, Partners Group, Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Denmark's export credit agency EKF to build the Sapphire Wind Farm in the Great ...

The good and the bad in the Fed rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
... US Treasuries, bond yields are still lower than they were at the start of 2016 - Euro (down 33 bps), UK (down 0.71 bps), Japan (down 0.20) and Australia (down 2 bps). But having said that, the trend in bond yields has clearly reversed from down to up. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2016
... this month, chances are auto purchases would stall as what happened when America's 'cash for clunkers" programme was ended. Japan machinery orders Japan's Cabinet Office reports that core machinery orders -- private-sector machinery orders, excluding ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
... previous month. This represents the fastest growth since September 2014 and beat market expectations for a 1.3% decline. Japan GDP If you thought the preliminary estimate of 2.2% annualised growth rate for Japanese third quarter was too strong, you are ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... bank's sales of US dollars to support the yuan. China's foreign exchange reserves peaked at US$3.993 trillion in June 2014. Japan cash earnings Latest wages data suggest that the Bank of Japan's fight against deflation - headline CPI rate up 0.1% in ...

Japan still leading APAC offshore investors

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
While Chinese investment in Australia has received substantial attention over the past few years, Japan is still the biggest Asia-Pacific offshore investor, a new FSC and Perpetual report reveals. The 2016 Australian Investment Managers Cross-Border ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
... September quarter from 3.1% in the second but (using the same measure) still ahead of the US (1.6%), the Eurozone (1.7%), Japan (0.8%) but slower than the UK's (2.3%). The details of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report show only household ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
... state-owned firms while Caixin canvasses private industrial companies - helps explain the disparity in the two surveys. Japan industrial production Japanese industrial production increased by 0.1% in the month of October, beating market expectations ...