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Economics

Aussie economy rebalancing okay

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
Despite facing significant and persistent headwinds, Australia's domestic economy has been rebalancing better than is widely appreciated, according to a UBS chief economist.

Core holdings will be lacklustre in 2016: SSGA

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
The core of every investor's portfolio is going to be lacklustre in 2016, said State Street Global Advisers head of investments Kevin Anderson at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney.

US dollar downed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
A pause in Fed normalisation that sends the US dollar lower is bad news and good news for Australia.

Strength in (A$) weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
And this without the RBA resorting to the "No Parking" signs implemented by the Bank of Japan - negative interest rate - and the European Central Bank - negative deposit rate - both of which are trying to cheapened their currencies to stimulate their ...

BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
Move over QE and QQE (you too, Operation Twist), we have a new policy measure lexicon in town - and its name is "Quantitative and Qualitative Easing with a Negative Interest Rate".

Investors can expect "reasonable" year despite gloom

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
The economy will grow at 2.75%, shares will return high single digits and bonds look better than term deposits.

Not so durable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
The drop (big time) in US durable goods orders - a leading indicator of business investment -- in December is raising doubts over the durability of the economy's expansion.

Now is the time to accommodate the sellers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
One of the best paths to investment success is to accommodate the market; buy when others are desperate to sell and sell when investors are buying irrationally.

Cheers to unmet expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
Woe is us, consumer prices are rising to a level that even the US Federal Reserve is still wishing to have to this day.

Down but upbeat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
Domestic companies have the Australian dollar's depreciation to thank for this - it's once again cushioning the Australian economy from the ill winds blowing from the international economies.