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Is the Fed the victim of its own success?

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017

... This perhaps explains why the Fed became the first mover. More on this later. However, the latest update on US consumer prices showed that headline inflation decelerated to 1.6% in the year to June from 1.9% in May - the lowest since October 2016 and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016

... expectations over the next five years declined by 2.5%. US CPI inflation Higher energy prices are flowing through into US consumer prices. Headline CPI inflation accelerated to 1.7% in the year to November from 1.6% in the previous month. This is in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP | WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014

... economic releases, new US home construction and applications for building permits slowed sharply in May, while US consumer prices in the same month rose more than expected. LONDON - European stock ended higher as investors await this week's US Federal ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP | FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013

... the number of housing construction starts fell 16.5 per cent in April. The US Labor Department reported that US consumer prices fell 0.4 per cent in April and annual inflation was 1.1 per cent. St George economist Janu Chan said US Treasuries and Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP | THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011

... while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite lost 46.59 points (1.73 per cent) to 2,639.61. "Favourable reports on US consumer prices and industrial production, along with a strong quarterly release by Target Corp, are being overshadowed by growing concerns ...

Back to cactus

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011

... to 13 in June - the lowest in level in nine months. On top of all these, inflation continues to accelerate. US consumer prices rose by 0.2 per cent in May, bringing annual inflation up to 3.6 per cent - the highest since October 2008. Worst, it might ...

Torturing the data

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010

... to-school season, the second-largest sales period after the year-end holidays." Burn its left eyeballs! Next. US consumer prices rose by 0.3 per cent in July - the sharpest increase since August last year and ending the past three months string of falling ...

Bonds no safer than houses

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009

... deep recession the US suffered during the mid-1950s. Are we perhaps going to relive this 50s experience when US consumer prices were falling at a rate of 1 per cent per annum and growth contracted by 2.6 per cent? Maybe. US headline CPI inflation fell ...

Nothing new

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008

... all-time high of 5.9 percent in the previous month. This is in contrast with the higher-than-expected reading in US consumer prices released overnight. Headline CPI increased by 0.8 percent in July - double market expectations for a 0.4 percent gain ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP | THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008

... as another big drop in the oil price helped ease concerns about inflation. It was revealed last night that US consumer prices shot up in June at the second fastest pace in 26 years with two-thirds of the surge blamed on soaring energy prices. Federal ...

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NovaPort Capital team calls it a day

JAMIE WILLIAMSON

The team at small caps manager NovaPort Capital have decided to hang up their boots.

Industry fund merger postponed

ANDREW MCKEAN

Mine Super and TWUSUPER have reported "significant progress" towards their merger, but it has been pushed back.

Fidelity shutters, delists funds

KARREN VERGARA

Fidelity International is terminating an international fixed interest strategy that failed to scale, as well as delisting a managed fund.

Super funds to solve the housing crisis?

ANDREW MCKEAN

Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive Mary Delahunty said at the Australian Shareholders' Association Conference yesterday that addressing the supply side of the housing crisis requires an infusion of private capital.

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