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...Some Fed watchers are starting to put September back on the radar for the Fed’s second hike since December 2015,” said analysts at DBS....
...Japan’s broad Topix benchmark was up 0.2 per cent, while the Nikkei 225 was 0.1 per cent higher as the yen sat 0.1 per cent lower at ¥103.36 per dollar....
...“If the market believes that a strong US dollar would prevent the Fed from hiking rates, it had better think again,” analysts at DBS said....
...Mr Shroff, who will be based in Singapore, joins the $1.5tn US asset manager from Greenwich Associates, the investment consultancy....
...More often than not, USD strength is associated with risk aversion and / or rate hike expectations, neither of which appears to be positive for risky assets,” said analysts at DBS....
...Barring a strong rebound to more than 2 per cent per quarter, the FY2016 growth will miss the BOJ’s expectation of 1.5 per cent,” said analysts at DBS....
...Analysts at DBS have observed that the behaviour of many emerging market currencies this month, as the dollar has risen, has been similar to the volatility led by the Federal Reserve’s “taper tantrums” from...
...Put crude at $45 to 50 a barrel and 3.4 per cent headline inflation would be in sight by November,” DBS said. “The Fed has been waiting for inflation to go up....
...Although it was a volatile start to the year for markets, and policymakers were watching for any potential economic fallout, analysts at DBS reckon the Fed is far behind the curve....
...The euro was flat at $1.1296....
...Gold is down $7 to $1,249 an ounce....
...Gold was 0.2 per cent firmer at $1,076.50 an ounce....
...“The message is clear: equilibrium in oil markets is now about supply; demand is a sideshow,” analysts at DBS said bluntly....
...Analysts at DBS said the US central bank adopted a “minimalist approach”, possibly owing to it being less sure, or more divided, than it was six weeks ago when it raised interest rates for the first time...
...The Nasdaq Composite crept 0.1 per cent higher. Japan’s yen was 0.1 per stronger at Y113.59 per dollar....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was 0.1 per cent lower. On the mainland, China’s Shanghai Composite was up 1.7 per cent and the tech-focused Shenzhen Composite was 1.6 per cent higher....
...If the answer turns out to be yes, core inflation would accelerate all the more quickly thereafter,” said analysts at DBS....
...The BoJ and ECB are tinkering around the edges – QE makes a difference (to markets), cutting interest by 10 basis points, whether above or below zero, does not,” noted analysts at DBS....
...Analysts at DBS said the overall impact of the incident seemed to have been transitory, noting that US stocks had recovered through Tuesday’s trading session....
...“In the 13 months since the new flexibilities were first mentioned in the 2014 Budget we have received 1,250 transfer value requests — a threefold increase,” said Danny Wilding, partner with Barnett Waddingham...
...With total corporate DB pension liabilities now estimated at £1.5tn, some are talking about the freedoms as a “new dawn” for liability management — in other words, cutting the cost of future payments....
...DBS shares fell 1.6 per cent on Wednesday....
...In spite of the difficulties Mr Ehnes believes DB schemes will deliver greater economic security than other retirement schemes....
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