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ASX half-year profit up 4.7%

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
... clients: "The investment will create a more flexible exchange infrastructure and support innovation in Australia's financial markets, including the ability to trade instruments in multiple currencies. The new infrastructure will also reduce the internal ...

Focus on yield is distorting asset prices: PM Capital

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
... amongst local investors due to the strength of the Australian economy and resilience of the local Australian financial markets over the last 10-15 years." While other indicators such as a slowing in demand for natural resources and subdued consumer sentiment ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
... force data and December overseas arrivals and departures figures. Reserve Bank of Australia Assistant Governor (Financial Markets) Guy Debelle is slated to speak at the FX Week Australia Conference in Sydney. In equities news, Telstra, Mirvac, Transurban ...

It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... anyone can think about of to convince the Fed not to set rates on lift-off yet. No surprises for guessing but financial markets are now saying the Fed's mid-year lift-off is back on track. But as Jon Hilsenrath writes in the 'Wall Street Journal' (WSJ) ...

Currency warriors, mount horses and draw swords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... Russia and Canada; QE by the ECB; more (or longer) QE by the BOJ; and the RBNZ's policy hawk to 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 ...

A Fed surprise?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... (BOJ) and the European Central Bank (ECB) leaves markets no other option but to catch a ride with greenback. Financial markets appear to be sanguine about the BOJ and the ECB's moves - their reasons are rational after all, to counter slow growth and ...

Super Mario delivers huge stimulus package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... way?" Mario, Mario, Mario Talkin' 'bout Q-E Q-E. Yes Virginia, he did it. Super Mario brought sunshine to the financial markets on this, a cold and cloudy Frankfurt day. He ended months of speculations, rumours, rumours of speculations, debates, dissents ...

ASIC national exam proposal lacks evidence: CMCRC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... illustrated wider regulatory issues, arguing that ASIC has been "making or authorising changes to the structure of financial markets for years without ever providing... evidence on how those changes affect its objective of ensuring financial markets ...

That other surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
There's no question about it... the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) surprise move was the biggest story in the financial markets last week. So huge that it eclipsed everything else. It eclipsed the plunging oil price and the dropping copper price -- the ...

So sure it's certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... expectations at fever pitch, the ECB could no longer afford to disappoint markets. It won't feel lucky punks. Financial markets would take the first hit - the euro would start rising, stocks would fall and credit spreads would widen. Promises just won't ...