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Big trouble in big China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
We're certainly in terrible trouble now. It couldn't be your normal garden variety profit-taking, pocketing some of last week's cream off the top, simple portfolio rebalancing, or a mere random walk. No siree! There's big trouble in big China and it'll ...

BNP Paribas launches APAC philanthropy program

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
BNP Paribas has launched a philanthropy program that will help young people in 26 countries, including seven projects in the Asia Pacific region.

Shaw and Partners appoints foundation members

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
Shaw and Partners has set up a committee for its charitable foundation and appointed 12 private wealth advisers and executives to the new division.

Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
While the Fed and the markets appear to be focused on the one-half of their twin mandate, jobs - the latest slowing of which caused the latest betting that a lift-off is off the table this year - it's doing better than the other half, that is on inflation.

Australian Ethical awards $300,000 in grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
Australian Ethical Investment has awarded $300,000 in community grants this month to support a number of causes both in Australia and globally.

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
Financial markets are reversing their third quarter reversal because speculations are now mounting not over when the Fed would start lift-off, but over whether it should start stimulating once more.

NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
"I don't see raising the target range for the fed-funds rate above its current low level in 2015 or 2016 as being consistent with the pursuit of the kind of labor market outcomes that we are charged with delivering."

Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
Both the RBA and the BOJ have sanguine and positive views on their domestic economies.

China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
China has added another feather in its hat this August with the yuan nudging the yen out to become the world's fourth most used payments currency.

Janet vindicated

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
Data released last week - the ones that directly related to the Fed's twin mandate of stable inflation and full employment -- vindicated Janet's prudence.