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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... shares. LONDON - Sluggish economic growth in eurozone heavyweights Germany and France has weighed on the European single currency and the region's stock markets. Nevertheless equities ended in positive territory on Friday, with London's benchmark FTSE ...

Ruble trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... Melbourne Cup and one day before the ECB policy decision - the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) announced the end of its currency intervention policy. But not quite, it'll still conduct smoothing out operations if "the value of the dual-currency basket stays ...

Rejoice for the A$ has fallen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... Boyton's prediction (made last February) comes to fruition - that of the dollar-A fetching only 66 cents of the USA's currency (though it won't be until 2015 as Adam's crystal ball predicts). Gov Glenn must be smiling (recall that he wants the A$ to ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... Reserve's decision to end its economic stimulus program. Spooner said the main impact of the Fed's decision was on bond and currency markets rather than the equity markets. "The reason for that is that (company) earnings have very much supported the ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... point to 2.32%; the VIX index went up by 0.76 point to a still low 15.15 reading. There were bigger movements in the currency markets though. The US dollar jumped by 0.8% versus the euro and by 0.7% against the yen. Hardly surprising given the relativities ...

FEATURE: Is it time to change the conversation about ETFs?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH, MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... companies, or specific sectors, such as healthcare or financials. There are government and corporate bond ETFs, cash ETFs, currency ETFs, property ETFS, emerging market ETFs, not to mention a multitude of commodity exchange-traded products. All of this ...

Better corporate cash management lifts returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... need to do so. If such borrowings cross sovereign boundaries it means they may be taking on unnecessary sovereign and currency risks. Flipe Simao, head of client advisory at BNP Paribas in Europe, said: "If a company is borrowing when it doesn't have ...

Bitcoin exchange goes live

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... around the world conducted by Independent Reserve, use Bitcoin is still limited, with only 8% having used the digital currency. However, 20 % of respondents said they definitely planned to use Bitcoin in the future, while 60 % said they possibly would. ...

CBA 'open-minded' about Bitcoin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... American Chamber of Commerce in Sydney this week, Narev said the bank is open-minded about the controversial digital currency. "I was interested to see us criticised I think, somewhere, yesterday, that banks were oblivious to Bitcoin and I was thinking ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... since November 2011. That was the time you, I and Irene were concerned over the probability of a break up in the single currency area and, at the time, the looming recession there and the magnitude as to which this is transmitted to the rest of the world." ...