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Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... head as she scours the global economic and financial market landscape and saw that it wasn't good. Yes folks, financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping commodity prices on concerns over slowing China. Those concerns ...

Macquarie announces new chair

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... (prior to the latter merging with the ASX in 2006). From 1988 to 1999, he was head of Bankers Trust Australia's financial markets group. Commenting on Warne's appointment, McCann said, "Peter is an experienced chairman and board director. He has brought ...

Confused and confounded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... surprises us, our judgments about appropriate monetary policy will change." Read: incoming data and developments in financial markets would determine whether or not they take the first step towards normalising monetary policy... this time in October. ...

ASX to set up shop in Hong Kong

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... of an ASX direct connection hub in Hong Kong. The hub will provide connectivity from Hong Kong to Australia's financial markets community in the Australian Liquidity Centre via the ASX Net Global network. "Asia is the world's fastest growing economic ...

Fed will lift later this year if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... the economy from significantly overshooting both of our goals. Such an abrupt tightening would risk disrupting financial markets and perhaps even inadvertently push the economy into recession. In addition, continuing to hold short-term interest rates ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... other. A great deal easier than the risks a premature lift-off could engender - even greater volatility in the financial markets, continued capital flight out of China and emerging markets, an even stronger US dollar which depresses commodity prices ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... caution. For what good would it do to take the first step into monetary policy normalisation now if it causes the financial markets and the US economy to take two or three steps back in the process? Or in the words of Homer - no, not the Greek author ...

Multimillionaires still love property above everything else

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... generate wealth was slightly lower than the rest of the worlds'. But their trust of wealth managers, firms, financial markets and regulatory bodies increased from previous year levels. Trust in wealth managers increased by 20.4% to 75.4% and trust in ...

The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... rationale for "aye" or "nay" vote come their monetary policy deliberations on 16-17 September. It's crunch time for financial markets too, given the reaction they've displayed so far - up, down, up and down, down and up - to every piece of data (and ...

Lift Janet lift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... mind. To lift of not to lift this month, that is the overriding question. The recent volatility in the world's financial markets says no. The Fed, after all, has time and again, reminded us that they would be watching "developments in the financial markets" ...