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Hedge funds post worst Q1

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
... de-leveraging in some markets." However, bucking the trend was managed futures which performed well on the back of a falling US dollar coupled with rises in commodities, government bonds and the European dollar. Reflecting this, the CS/Tremont Investable ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... said a strong Australian dollar slightly lowered average refiner margins in the first quarter of 2007/08 despite strong US dollar margins. On Wall Street overnight, stocks rose as a range of technology companies posted results that showed the sector's ...

Canadian pensions down again

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... Canadian dollar depreciated a hefty 7 per cent against a basket of world currencies, including 2.7 per cent against the US dollar, 10 per cent against the Euro and 13 per cent against the Japanese yen. The Canadian stock market was also not immune to ...

Currency replaces fixed income

Currency investing could be the next big thing as more investors use foreign exchange managed funds as an alternative to fixed income funds. Morgan Stanley's London-based currency expert Alex Davey was in Australia this month to talk about the group's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... off renewed fears of a US recession yesterday, closing higher as the local resource sector took heart from a weaker US dollar and better commodity prices. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 closed up 106 points, or 1.93 per cent higher, at 5608.9, while the broader ...

US confidence down and up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
... five-year low, driven by unrelenting negative economic news and the impact on consumption of the perpetually falling US dollar. But institutional investor confidence is up. The consumer confidence survey results are based on a representative sample of ...

Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... rush is just part may also be due investors seeing commodities as currencies in their own right too as the value of the US dollar falls, according to a March 20 IMF Analysis report. Meanwhile the disconnect between emerging and developed economies has ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... terms of trade boom may also be undoing its own good works as the Australian dollar breaks 23 year records against the US dollar and forces Australian exports into price zones that are beginning to be unsustainably uncompetitive, which is in turn accompanied ...

Our rates a global sideshow

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
Slowing world growth, a collapsing US dollar and a still very nervous global credit market won't slow down world capital flows but rather increase them, said McKinsey in its latest newsletter. "Amid the turmoil, it's easy to forget that long-term structural ...

Perfect storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
High oil prices and a shrinking US dollar signal an economic perfect storm looming on the horizon, warns the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Simon Johnson, IMF chief economist told ABC TV's Business Lateline program last night that the credit crisis ...