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Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
The first thing we learned in economics is how prices are determined by the interaction between demand and supply. High demand and low supply causes prices to rise - and vice-versa. Economists have already coined the term "stagflation" - an economic ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
The release of the minutes of the Fed's and the ECB's June meetings have brought back financial market trepidation - sparked by last week's hawkish comments from central bank heads of the US, the Eurozone and the UK - that the end of cheap money is ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
No one expected the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to raise or lower the official cash rate from its current 1.5% when its board met on the 4 July, but only a few expected the Australian central bank to follow its bigger overseas peers into a more ...

Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
It appears Australian equities will end the final day of FY2016-17 with an EOFYS (end of financial year sale) gauging from the heavy selling on Wall Street and Europe overnight. The S&P 500 index closed 0.9% lower last night (the Nasdaq even more, down ...

The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen revealed her thoughts on inflation, inflation expectations and asset valuations when she spoke before the British Academy 'President's Lecture' in London last night. Yellen reiterated the message from the 14 June ...

Expansions maintained despite dashed expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
Markit Economics' preliminary estimates show that while the purchasing managers' indices (PMI) for the US, the Eurozone and Japan all came in below market expectations, all remained in expansion. The IHS/Markit flash US composite output index slipped ...

Oil's not so slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
It has only been less than a month - 25 May -- since the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced the extension of crude oil production cuts by nine months to the last day of March 2018 but oil prices are sliding again. The deal ...

May the force's not with her

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
What UK Prime Minister Theresa May expected as a landslide win at the snap 8 June general elections turned out to be a slide at the polls for the Conservatives instead. The British prime minister intended to secure her Brexit mandate when she announced ...

Retail funds closing in on return gap

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
The five-year performance gap between not-for-profit and retail funds has narrowed to 130 basis points, according to Rainmaker SelectingSuper research. While the one-year gap to April 2017 widened to 70 basis points, overall retail funds have performed ...

Weaker returns for SMSFs: Rainmaker

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
Self-managed super funds delivered lower returns compared to MySuper products in the 12 months to April, according to Rainmaker's SuperGuard 360 SMSF performance index. The SG360 SMSF reference index generated a return of 10.3%, slightly underperforming ...