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Australian dividend growth leads Asia Pacific

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... shareholders in 2014. Weakness in the Australian dollar relative to its US counterpart over the year brought a $4.2 billion currency loss of which half was in the fourth quarter alone. Stripping out special dividends, index changes, currency and timing ...

Currency warriors, mount horses and draw swords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... dove reversal. Financial markets expect more easing moves from the same central banks and from others joining in on the currency war. But they better produce positive effects - and soon - on their respective economies before America's own is beggared ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... PBOC's move is a reaction to other central banks implementing policies designed to shore up their own economies - mainly currency depreciation - but at the same time "beggars their neighbour" by exporting their weakness and deflation elsewhere. The latest ...

Taylor rules the RBA just right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... growth. Besides, other central banks - big and small - are already doin' it, let's have what they're having and join the currency war. But the rationales for the "no cut" camp are equally as rational. A cut would stimulate already expensive property ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... weakening Australian dollar and an uptick in oil prices helped the energy stocks and mining giant BHP Billiton. The local currency dropped to 77.26 US cents overnight, sinking closer to levels last seen in July 2009. This helped BHP, giving the broader ...

When Harry met Sally syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... course, weak/weakening economic activity and the rising threat of falling prices. The central banks are going to war - "currency war" - by cutting interest rates (or threatening to cut them) and by so doing, hope to "beggar their neighbours" by depreciating ...

iShares launches currency hedged international ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... are popular with investors due to their portfolio diversification benefits. And for investors who are concerned about currency risk, hedged ETFs are increasingly in demand, the head of BlackRock's iShares business in Australia, Jon Howie said. "In recent ...

A Fed surprise?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... into inflation. Forgive them for they definitely know what they do. Ba ha ha! I laugh because I see this simply as a currency war being engaged by both the ECB and the BOJ (and whichever central bank that is overtly depreciating its currency). They are ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... to work in the equity market or own off-shore businesses, where we can continue to get a 6%-8% return. If you add the currency in there we might get up into low double digits which would be a solid outcome." fs

Central bank surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... in its deposit rate to minus 0.2%. And to those speculating that the Danes would follow the Swiss and abandon of the currency peg, "We have the necessary tools" to defend the peg, the central bank stressed. "Circumstances significantly different from ...