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Though the Fed didn’t raise rates this month, Heidi Richardson explains how to potentially prepare your bond portfolio for the rate regime change. The Fed has been reluctant to shake the boat in the wake of the financial crisis, fearing it could scare off investors and stun...

The Reserve Bank today published a report detailing how it estimates New Zealand’s neutral interest rate. The time for a further 25-bps rate cut is appropriate now.

The joint statement said the leaders welcomed the adoption by consensus of the UNGA decision to use the text presented by the president of the 69th General Assembly in his letter dated July 31, 2015 as the basis for negotiations within the IGN (Inter-governmental negotiations)....

S&P 500 e-minis were down 15.5 points, or 0.8 percent, with 230,212 contracts traded. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 113.35 points, or 0.7 percent, to 16,314.67. Signs of weak growth overseas won’t prove large enough to have a significant impact on policy, the...

The agreements include orders and commitments for 300 Boeing narrowbody and widebody aircraft and expanded collaboration between Boeing and China’s commercial aviation industry.

“The MPC has decided unanimously to keep the repurchase rate unchanged for now at 6% per annum”.

Among other precious metals, platinum slid for a fifth session out of six on fears that demand from the auto sector, where the metal is used in diesel catalysts, could take a hit following the Volkswagen emissions scandal.

Markit’s flash purchasing managers’ index (PMI) scored 53.9 for this month, down slightly from August but still above the 50 score that implies no growth and in line with economic growth.

Where does China go from here? For greater accomplishments, the US role will be to determine the price of status, and the Chinese role will be to determine whether that price is worth paying. This expectation is based on a conditional convergence framework that relies on data...

The European and USA markets ended firmly in the red and the Asian bourses figure to open in similar fashion.

Local area unemployment data are not seasonally adjusted. The USA preliminary rate for August was 5.1 percent, down 0.2 percent from July.

So this “transition” is as significant – in a long-term sense – as any global economic event of the past 30 years.

Though anything above 50 indicates expansion, the decline points to slower growth.

The Caixin Flash China manufacturing purchasing manager’s index (PMI) fell further to 47 in September from 47.3 in August (see chart 1), coming in below expectations. Levels below 50 signify a contraction. “Overall, the fundamentals are good”, said Dr. He Fan,...

“China shares were up for the third day on the trot, a running streak unseen for a month thanks to optimism surrounding President Xi’s state visit to the USA”, said Mike Van Dulken, analysts at Accendo Markets.