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CBA refunds $7.6 million to 8400 customers

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has started contacting more than 8000 customers to refund a total of $7.6 million after failing to apply fee waivers and ongoing benefits to its AgriAdvantage Plus package holders.

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
For sure and for certain the Fed will have to lift some time, what is uncertain is when.

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
Financial markets are now pricing a 57% 25 basis point snip in the official cash rate at the RBA's November meeting, up from less than 40% before WBC's announcement. Citi is 100% sure of a rate cut by February next year.

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 ...

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.

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.