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The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... Nothing wrong with that... except that the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker expect the worst as underlined by the sharp falls in equities, bond and commodity markets and the VIX index soared by 39.9% at the end of last week's trading activity. ...

Watershed SMA makes the right calls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  SUNDAY, 11 SEP 2016
... co-founder and portfolio manager Adrian Rowley. "Early in the year we traded out of IVV which held up relatively well given the sharp decline in the Australian dollar vs the USD. The US market fell, but the Aussie dollar also fell sharply to just below ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
Australian GDP The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the country's National Accounts report showing that while the economy's quarterly real GDP growth halved to 0.5% in the three months to June from 1.0% in the March quarter, the annual ...

December maybe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
... jobs in the service sector increased in August, those in mining, construction, utilities and manufacturing declined. The sharp fall in the ISM manufacturing index into contraction territory in August - down to 49.4 from 52.6 in July - points to more ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
... credit growth decelerated to its slowest pace in two years to 6.6% in July from 6.7% in the previous month due largely to the sharp slowdown in credit for investor housing with the annual growth rate easing from 5.0% to 4.8 in July - this had been consistently ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest tally on building approvals show total new dwellings approved jumped by a sharp 11.3% in the month of July, more than offsetting the declines registered in June (-4.7%) and May (-3.5%) driven by a 23.0% surge ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
... to HIA chief economist Harley Dale, "The overall trend decline in new home sales is accelerating, signalling a relatively sharp drop (from a record high) in new dwelling commencements from 2017". "In all likelihood we will experience sharper falls in ...

Mastering the art of ignoring crises

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
The promise of outsized - but very infrequent - returns in financial markets can, like casinos, lead investors to trade in ways that destroys their wealth. That's the view of Capital Fund Management president Philippe Jordan who says investors who get ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
Australia construction work done A sharp 9.0% drop in engineering in the June quarter accounted for all of the 3.7% fall in the value of total construction work done in the three months to June - worse than market expectations for a 1.9% fall. The value ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
Markit flash US manufacturing PMI Markit Economics' flash US manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) eased to a reading of 52.1 in August from July's nine-month high level of 52.9 on the back of continued solid strength in production. While the ...