Please click on the link below to access this article/market wrap from Ausbil. The Economic Observer - April 2014 ... Read more
How emerging markets can tame a taper tantrum
by: Alexander Klemm & Andre Meier & Sebastián Sosa iMFdirect Governments in most emerging economies, including in Latin America, have reduced their exposure to US interest rates over the past decade by issuing a greater share of public debt in domestic ... Read more
US stocks will rise for a fair while yet
by Dominic Rossi, CIO, Equities at Fidelity May 2014 It has been a solid start for US equities after a strong 2013. Their resilience has been particularly impressive given investors had ample opportunity to take fright. Despite much uncertainty over the crisis in Ukraine and the fact that US ... Read more
China’s housing boom is on shifting demographic sands —Business Spectator
Peter Cai Japanese health minister Chikara Sakaguchi said rather melodramatically in 2002 that "if we go on this way, the Japanese race will become extinct", referring to the country’s exceedingly low birth rate and rapidly ageing society. Japan’s fertility rate dropped below 2.1 -- the ... Read more
The problems with budgeting —Clime Asset Management
In recent interviews and ‘leaks’ it has become apparent that that the Treasurer and the Government could be thinking that Australia may need to endure a period of declining real wages (and therefore our standard of living) to allow the economy to re-balance and transition. If this is the ... Read more
Predictions for equity markets –Clime Asset Management
Posted by: Clime Asset Management Readers are constantly bombarded with predictions for the “end of year target” for the Australian sharemarket. In the main, these predictions are made by commission agents seeking to generate buying activity. Their modus operandi is to scare investors into ... Read more
Economic Update —Chris Caton (Chief Economist at BT)
Please click on the link below. Caton's Corner ... Read more
Should China abandon its growth target?
By Peter Cai of Business Spectator China's Finance Minister Lou Jiwei listens to a question from a reporter at a news conference during the annual meeting of Chinas legislature in Beijing, China Thursday, March 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) Premier Li Keqiang has told the ... Read more
Australia’s economy is not all doom and gloom: Here are five surprising growth sectors —Business Spectator
By Harrison Polites First SPC Ardmona, and now Toyota. The apparent queue of big industries players requesting a government bailout or pulling out of Australia paints a rather bleak picture for the country’s future economic aspirations. While the focus has been on the ... Read more
A short-term retail stain on the US recovery —Business Spectator
By Callam Pickering At first glance, weak retail sales and sluggish job creation suggest that the US economy has slowed over the past two months. However, unusually cold weather and snowstorms have been major contributing factors to the slowdown. As a result, ... Read more
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