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Stocks To Watch Hiap Hoe, Magnus Energy, Rowlsey, Serrano, Vicplas September 23, 2015: 8:32 AM The following stocks may be in focus today. Hiap Hoe Limited (Valuation: 1.20, Fundamental: 0.55), the property group, says 97% of the residential units in Marina Tower Melbourne in Australia have been sold to date, with total sales achieved of over A $ 256 million ($ 256 million). Magnus Energy Group has agreed to subscribe to 2.7 million new shares of Flagship at an issue price of 37 cents each or $ 1 million in total. Interior fit-out solutions company Serrano has launched its consumer based interior design and home renovation business. At the same time, the group will be opening its new 4,998 sqm concept showroom at Sungei Kadut by 4Q2015. Rowsley is converting its Vantage Bay township in Iskandar Malaysia into a regional healthcare city. Vicplas International (Valuation: 0.90, Fundamental: 1.85), the manufacturer of PVC pipes, pipe fittings and electrical conduits for the medical and building industries, has swung back to the black, thanks to better sales In the FY15 ended July, Vicplas registered. earnings of $ 5.8 million from a loss of $ 4.1 million a year ago. Full-year revenue rose 17.1% to $ 74.1 million from a year ago. Markets US stocks dropped on Tuesday as a selloff in commodities dragged down materials companies while Volkswagen suppliers' shares dropped following the German carmaker' s emissions scandal. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 179.72 points, or 1.09%, to 16,330.47, the S & P 500 lost 24.23 points, or 1.23%, to 1,942.74 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 72.23 points, or 1.5%, to 4,756.72. The Straits Times Index ended the day 0.48% lower at 2,868.47, after trading between 2,862.72 and 2,904.98. Decliners outnumbered gainers 212 to 192. |
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Global Markets Equities drop as commodities tumble, dollar up September 23, 2015: 7:21 AM Tumbling commodities prices and worries about China' s economy pulled stocks sharply lower on Tuesday, while bond yields declined and the dollar rose to a two-week high on bets US officials will soon hike interest rates. Wall Street losses hovered for much of the trading day around 2 percent on selling driven by falls in oil and copper before easing. European shares were also stung by the commodities sell-off, with the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 stocks index finishing down 3.3 percent. Wall Street' s Dow Jones industrial average fell 179.92 points, or 1.09 percent, to 16,330.47, the S & P 500 .SPX lost 24.23 points, or 1.23 percent, to 1,942.74 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 72.23 points, or 1.5 percent, to 4,756.72. The S & P materials index, down 1.8 percent, led a broad decline in the S & P 500 stock index. Copper prices were down 3.6 percent after touching three-week lows, while oil was off 2 percent. The Chinese government' s efforts to stimulate growth by easing fiscal and monetary policy have failed to calm nerves in global markets. " Investors are nervous because there is a sense that the Fed knows more than it is letting on regarding the health of the global economy," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities in New York. The Federal Reserve last week kept US rates near zero, citing turbulence in a tightly linked global economy, including slowing growth in China. The selloffs in stocks and commodities boosted US Treasuries prices and other lower-risk government debt, such as German 10-year Bunds. Benchmark 10-year Treasuries notes were up 22/32 in price, yielding 2.1337 percent. Equities weakness also helped lift the yen against the dollar, though the policy divergence between the Fed on the one hand and the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan on the other helped push the dollar to its highest since Sept. 10 against a basket of currencies . Though the Fed held policy steady last week, ECB officials have been stressing that monetary policy in the euro zone will remain loose for some time. The euro was last down 0.49 percent against the dollar at $ 1.11345. The dollar was last down 0.43 percent against the yen at 120.055 yen. The dollar index was last up 0.37 percent at 96.250. That was just under a nearly two-week high. Oil prices fell as concern over global growth weakened the outlook for demand and traders took profits from Monday' s rise. US crude finished down 2 percent but off its lows after a partial pipeline outage. Brent rose slightly for the day. Gold eased with stocks and commodities and also suffered from the speculation the Fed may still raise rates in 2015. It last traded at $ 1,125 an ounce, a decline of 0.75 percent. " We' re still in a situation where investors are going to wait and see when a hike will happen," Capital Economics analyst Simona Gambarini said. " There' s going to be a bit of volatility around precious metals until the Fed eventually does hike rates. " - Reuters |
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Wall Street slides with commodity-related stocks, autosU.S. stocks dropped on Tuesday as a selloff in commodities dragged down materials companies while Volkswagen suppliers' shares dropped following the German carmaker' s emissions scandal. S& P materials .SPLRCM, down 1.8 percent, led the decline for the S& P 500, but the selloff was broad-based, with all 10 major sectors lower. Shares of Newmont Mining (NEM.N) were down 6.3 percent at $15.59. Lingering worries about slower growth in China pushed commodities to two-week lows, with copper prices CMCU3 and industrial metals leading losses. U.S. crude oil CLc1 also settled lower. News that Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) admitted to cheating on vehicle emission tests sparked a global selloff in auto stocks. Shares of Volkswagen suppliers BorgWarner (BWA.N) and Delphi Automotive (DLPH.N) had among the biggest drops, with BorgWarner shares down 7.6 percent at $39.37, the S& P 500' s biggest daily percentage decliner, while Delphi lost 3.6 percent to $74.44. Shares of Ford (F.N) were down 2.8 percent at $13.92. Biotech stocks fell for a second day after U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she would propose a $250 monthly cap on prescription drugs. The Nasdaq Biotech Index .NBI was down 1.7 percent. " It' s China. It' s the Fed. It' s slowing global growth. The news on Volkswagen is overhanging the auto industry. There is a bit of a bubble in the healthcare area," said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer of Solaris Group in Bedford Hills, New York. The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 179.72 points, or 1.09 percent, to 16,330.47, the S& P 500 .SPX lost 24.23 points, or 1.23 percent, to 1,942.74 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 72.23 points, or 1.5 percent, to 4,756.72. The Fed' s decision last week to keep benchmark interest rates near zero has left investors guessing when the U.S. central bank will make its big move. Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart said on Monday a rate hike later this year was still possible. Lockhart is scheduled to speak again later on Tuesday. Fed Chair Janet Yellen speaks on Thursday. Uncertainty about the Fed' s rate outlook as well as the lingering concerns over China have kept investors on edge for weeks. The S& P 500 is now down 5.6 percent for the year so far. The CBOE Volatility index .VIX, Wall Street' s fear gauge, jumped 11.4 percent to 22.44, above its long-term average of 20. Among the day' s other big decliners in the materials area, Mosaic (MOS.N) slumped 7.0 percent to $33.88 after the fertilizer maker cut its quarterly sales forecast. Goldman Sachs (GS.N) fell 2 percent to $179.72 and was the biggest drag on the Dow after Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein said he had a " highly curable" form of lymphoma. Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by 2,442 to 623, for a 3.92-to-1 ratio on the downside on the Nasdaq, 2,171 issues fell and 636 advanced for a 3.41-to-1 ratio favoring decliners. The S& P 500 posted one new 52-week high and 35 lows the Nasdaq recorded 16 new highs and 118 lows. About 7.3 billion shares changed hands on U.S. exchanges, below the roughly 8.3 billion daily average for the past 20 trading days, according to Thomson Reuters data. |
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22-Sep-2015 16:45
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22-Sep-2015 16:33
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22-Sep-2015 15:37
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24/9 (Thursday) Singapore public holiday. Got profit please take.... |
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Noon Market STI up 0.42% to 2,894.40 at midday September 22, 2015 : 12:28 PM Singapore equities inched up at noon on Tuesday, with no clear direction to trading and little in the way of local new cues. By 12.08pm, the Straits Times Index rose 0.42% to 2,894.40. Market breadth was positive. Excluding warrants, gainers outnumber decliners 193 to 112. The Straits Times Index traded between 2,884.19 and 2,901.36, after opening 0.27% higher at 2,890.11. A total of 704.6 million shares worth $448.8 million changed hands, giving an average price of about 64 cents per share for the entire market. Among the top actives, International Healthway Corporation rose 15.2% to 11.4 cents while Healthway Medical Corporation rose 10.7% to 3.1 cents after both agreed to revise the terms of agreement involving IHC' s acquisition of Healthway through a share swap. |
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Stocks To Watch Magnus Energy, Tat Hong, ICP, Soilbuild Construction, Jasper Investments September 22, 2015: 8:10 AM The following stocks may be in focus today: Magnus Energy' s subsidiary, Mid-Continent Equipment Group, has agreed to subscribe to 8 million shares in Royal Energy Pty Ltd at 12.5 Australian cents per share or A $ 1 million ($ 1 million) in total. The Singapore Exchange has ruled that the proposed spin-off of part or all of Tat Hong' s China tower crane rental business in Taiwan complies with its listing rules and that it is not considered a ' chain listing' ICP, a manufacturer of electronic products and components, says its wholly-owned subsidiary, Travelodge Hotels Asia, has entered into a joint venture with Absolute Hotels Services (AHS) to roll out the Travelodge brand and sub-brands in Thailand. Soilbuild Construction Group says Soil-Build, a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, has won the tender for the lease of land at Airport Road from the Building and Construction Authority. Jasper Investments (Valuation: 0.00, Fundamental: 0.20) announced that Triton Investments No. 8 LLP will make a mandatory general cash offer for all the shares of Jasper Investments it does not own at 0.04 cent each. Markets The major US stock indexes ended higher on Monday, rebounding from losses late last week with help from Apple Inc and financial shares, but a drop in biotech shares limited Nasdaq' s advance. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 125.54 points, or 0.77%, to 16,510.12 , the S & P 500 gained 9.03 points, or 0.46%, to 1,967.06 and the Nasdaq Composite added 1.73 points, or 0.04%, to 4,828.9. The Straits Times Index ended the day 0.09% higher at 2,882.27, after trading between 2,854.67 and 2,886.93. Excluding warrants, decliners outnumbered gainers 220 to 183. |
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Equities, dollar and oil gain as gold slipsWall Street and European stocks rebounded more than 1 percent on Monday in rallies that, along with robust gains in the dollar and global oil markets, showed investors were tilting toward riskier assets. Gold, which benefits from investors' worries, fell back from a three-week high. After another day of general weakness in Asian stock markets, U.S. equities bounced back from big losses last week, when the Federal Reserve' s decision to keep interest rates near zero fanned worries about the health of the global economy. But U.S. equity gains that had topped 1 percent earlier in the day were pared by a downturn in biotechs after U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she would announce a plan to stop " price gouging" for specialty drugs. The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI unofficially ended up 125.61 points, or 0.77 percent, to 16,510.19, the S& P 500 .SPX gained 8.94 points, or 0.46 percent, to 1,966.97 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 0.04 percent to 4,828.96. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 .FTEU3 closed up 1 percent even though Germany' s DAX .GDAXI was stuck in neutral. Shares of car giant Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) tumbled 19 percent after it was found to have cheated U.S. emission tests. Investors cheered an unexpectedly clear election victory for the Syriza party in Greece on Sunday that boosted hopes its bailout program would stay on the road. In Asia, equity markets slumped, with 1.5 percent to 2 percent falls in Australia , Korea.KS11 and Malaysia .KLSE. China defied the region' s downtrend, with the Shanghai Composite index .SSEC up 1.9 percent and the CSI300 .CSI300 rising 1.75 percent. Oil LCOc1 rose, with U.S crude surging around 4 percent on signs of declining stockpiles and less drilling that could reduce future output. " The economic environment has changed since the Fed last hiked rates (in 2006)," said Michael Hewson at CMC Markets in London. " It is not just the U.S. central bank ... It is wearing the mantle of the global central bank, and markets are struggling with that." The U.S. dollar strengthened more than 1 percent against a basket of major currencies .DXY on hopes the Fed was still on track to hike rates this year while the European Central Bank may ease further. The euro < EUR=EBS was last down 1 percent against the dollar at $1.1192. The greenback was up 0.45 percent against the Japanese yen JPY=EBS at 120.51 yen. The Fed' s decision last week may lead other central banks, including the ECB, to ease further, said Vassili Serebriakov, currency strategist at BNP Paribas in New York. " The Fed' s talking a little bit more hawkish the ECB&rsquo s talking a little more dovish," said Douglas Borthwick, managing director at Chapdelaine Foreign Exchange in New York. U.S. Treasuries prices fell as U.S. equity markets rallied and three top Federal Reserve officials spurred sales of debt by suggesting that a year-end U.S. interest rate increase was possible. Gold retreated from a near three-week high as strength in stocks and the dollar dampened a rally. Spot gold XAU= was down 0.5 percent at $1,132.80 an ounce. |
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STI down 0.53% to 2,864.19 at midday September 21, 2015: 12:18 PM Singapore stocks lost ground on Monday, taking a negative lead from Friday' s US stock performance and the rest of Asia. US markets reacted negatively to the Federal Reserve' s decision to hold interest rates steady, with many investors saying they were worried by the uncertainty it is causing. By 12.03pm, the Straits Times Index was down 0.53% to 2,864.19. Market breadth was negative. Excluding warrants, decliners outnumber gainers 207 to 91. A total of 361.5 million shares worth $ 375 million changed hands, giving an average price of about $ 1.04 per share for the entire market. The Straits Times Index traded between 2,854.67 and 2,873.17, after opening 0.85% lower at 2,855.04. Among the big percentage losers, Singapore Exchange fell 3.11% to $ 7.48 while Noble Group (Valuation: 2.00, Fundamental: 0.35) fell 3.1% to 47.5 cents and Jardine C & C fell 2.4% to $ 28.60. J as p e r Investments (Valuation: 0.00, Fundamental: 0.20). Fell 16.7% to 0.5 cent after a trading halt on its shares was lifted The provider of engineering and construction services to the oil and gas sectors announced that it has received a mandatory conditional cash offer from Triton Investments No. 8 LLP to acquire all the ordinary shares in its issued and paid-up capital. Q & M Dental Goup (Singapore) last traded at 73 cents on Sept 18. The dental healthcare services provider requested for a trading halt on its shares pending the release of an announcement. United Food Holdings fell 5.5% to 17.1 cents after a trading halt was lifted. The food products supplier announced the resignation of its CFO. Eastern Holdings (Valuation: N / A, Fundamental: N / A) last traded at 30 cents on Sept 2. The publishing and property development company also requested for a trading halt pending the release of an announcement. There were no companies that went ex-dividend on Monday. |
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Stocks To Watch Sembcorp, SHS Holdings, Asiatravel.com, QT Vascular, Singtel September 21, 2015: 8:13 AM The following stocks may be in focus today: Sembcorp Industries (Valuation: 2.40, Fundamental: 1.10) ' wholly-owned subsidiary, Sembcorp Environment, is disposing its 40% stake in SembSita Pacific to its joint-venture partner, Suez Environnement Asia, for A $ 485 million ($ 488.8 million). Hotel and flight booking site Asiatravel.com is likely to be the subject of a takeover bid by Chinese company ZhongHong Holding, Engineering and corrosion prevention services firm SHS Holdings (Valuation: 2.00, Fundamental: 1.80) (formerly See Hup Seng) has signed an agreement to sell its refined petroleum distribution business to German chemicals distributor Brenntag for about $ 100.3 million. Medical supplies firm QT Vascular (Valuation: N / A, Fundamental: N / A) has signed an amendment to its distribution agreement with Cordis Corporation that allows the former to sell its Chocolate PTA balloon catheter to a select group of 88 healthcare providers in the United States. Neo Group (Valuation: 2.10, Fundamental: 1.50) has inked deals with two food companies in a bid to acquire them. Singapore Telecommunications' (Singtel) wholly owned subsidiary, Singtel Optus, has priced a $ 150 million, 7-year fixed-rate note issue, which will be issued on Sept 29. Markets Wall Street stocks closed lower on Friday in heavy trading as the Federal Reserve' s decision to keep interest rates near zero fuelled concerns about the potential impact of continuing weak global growth on US corporate earnings. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 289.95 points, or 1.74% , to 16,384.79, the S & P 500 lost 32.12 points, or 1.61%, to 1,958.08 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 66.72 points, or 1.36%, to 4,827.23. The Straits Times Index ended the day 0.56% lower at 2,879.59, after trading between 2,879.59 and 2,919.77. Excluding warrants, gainers outnumbered decliners 263 to 156. |
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U.S. crude tumbles 5 percent Wall Street selloff offsets rig dataOil prices tumbled on Friday, with U.S. crude falling 5 percent, after a selloff in Wall Street equities offset the positive impact of a third weekly decline in the U.S. oil rig count. A rise in the dollar, fears that OPEC oil production will not slow and reduced political tensions in the Middle East from U.S-Russia talks on Syria also weighed on oil. U.S. crude futures' front-month settled down $2.22, or 4.8 percent, at $44.68 a barrel. The front-month in Brent, the global oil benchmark, fell $1.61, or 3.3 percent, at $47.47. Oil services firm Baker Hughes' s report on the weekly U.S. oil rig count showed a drop of eight rigs this week. It was the third weekly decline of the rig count, a sign that a renewed fall in crude prices since July may be slowing some drillers from returning to the well pad in a bigger way. U.S. crude futures, already down 3 percent before the Baker Hughes report, pared losses just briefly on the news. " The industry is getting so much more production from new technology that a decline in working rigs doesn' t mean nearly as much as it used to," said David Thompson at Powerhouse, a commodities broker in Washington specializing in energy. Shortly after the rig count report, oil prices began a sharper descent as Wall Street' s key S& P 500 stock index .SPX headed for its biggest rout since the start of September. The dollar also rebounded from a 3-week low hit earlier in the day after a Federal Reserve decision to keep interest rates unchanged. Oil started the session lower after OPEC member Kuwait said it would take time for the oil market to balance, indicating that the producer group would continue defending market share over production cuts to bolster prices. Other OPEC sources said they expect oil to rise no more than $5 a barrel a year to reach $80 by 2020. Iran' s deputy oil minister Rokneddin Javadi, meanwhile, reiterated Iran' s plans to regain its oil production share once nuclear-related sanctions are removed against Tehran, adding that new oil contracts would be unveiled in coming weeks. Gasoline futures fell 1.4 percent, while ultralow-sulfur diesel slumped 2.5 percent on Friday, in an extended selloff across the petroleum complex. |
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Wall Street ends down after Fed stokes global economic fearsWall Street stocks closed lower on Friday in heavy trading as the Federal Reserve' s decision to keep interest rates near zero fueled concerns about the potential impact of continuing weak global growth on U.S. corporate earnings. Apart from the state of the world economy, the Fed cited financial market volatility and sluggish inflation at home in its decision on Thursday, while leaving the door open for a modest policy tightening later this year. Friday' s volatility was also likely exacerbated by so-called " quadruple-witching" , when options on stocks and indexes, and futures on indexes and single-stocks all expire, prompting investors to buy or sell shares to cover expiring contracts. The three major stock indexes each fell more than 1 percent, with all 30 Dow components in the red. " People are taking this to be another data point of a potentially deflationary environment. Deflation is bad for corporate profits and that leads to lower share prices," said Stephen Massocca, Chief Investment Officer at Wedbush Equity Management LLC in San Francisco. The Fed' s decision suggested a global economic environment that is unlikely to foster the kind of earnings growth needed to support stocks at their current, above-average valuations. Despite recent declines, the benchmark S& P 500 is still trading around 15.6 times forward 12-month earnings, above the 10-year median of 14.7 times, according to Thomson Reuters StarMine data. " What they introduced yesterday was that they' re worried about the effects on U.S. growth based on foreign economies," said Scott Colyer, chief executive officer of Advisors Asset Management in Monument, Colorado. More than 10.9 billion shares changed hands on U.S. exchanges, compared with 8.1 billion average for the previous 20 sessions, according to Thomson Reuters data. It was the most active trading day since August 24 when 14.2 billion shares changed hands as markets sold off on concerns about China' s economic growth. The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI closed down 289.95 points, or 1.74 percent, to 16,384.79, the S& P 500 .SPX lost 32.12 points, or 1.61 percent, to 1,958.08 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 66.72 points, or 1.36 percent, to 4,827.23. All 10 major S& P sectors ended lower, with the energy index' s .SPNY 2.6-percent fall leading the decline on falling oil prices. Industrials .SPLRCI and materials .SPLRCM also dropped more than 2 percent. Financials .SPSY fell 1.9 percent as banks would have benefited from an interest rate increase. For the week, the Dow shed 0.3 percent, the S& P fell 0.1 percent and the Nasdaq rose 0.1 percent. Investors are now focusing on the next Fed meeting on Oct. 27-28, though a growing number of economists, including those at Morgan Stanley and Barclays, now wonder whether the Fed will raise rates at all this year. The CBOE volatility index .VIX, known as the " fear gauge" , jumped 5.4 percent to 22.28, above its long-term average of 20. NYSE declining issues outnumbered advancers 2,139 to 929, for a 2.30-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq, 1,856 issues fell and 1,026 advanced, for a 1.81-to-1 ratio. The S& P 500 posted 4 new 52-week highs and 18 lows the Nasdaq recorded 51 new highs and 65 lows. |
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18-Sep-2015 20:23
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HDB records more than S$2b deficit in FY2014/2015The bulk of the deficit comes from HDB' s home ownership segment which covers the development and sale of flatshttp://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/hdb-records-more-than-s/2135776.html This is one organization that is a IRON RICE BOWL. Employed by them won' t die even though their ' books' are always in the RED~ |
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Update Oil prices weak on economic concerns, OPEC target on market share SINGAPORE (Sept 18): Oil markets were weak on Friday as fresh signs OPEC will continue to value market share over prices outweighed expectations of a lift when the United States kept interest rates at historic lows. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were trading at US $ 46.72 per barrel at 0331 GMT, down 18 cents from their last settlement. Brent prices were at US $ 49.12 per barrel, up 4 cents. Kuwait, a key producer of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), said on Thursday the oil market would balance itself but that this would take time, indicating support for the group' s policy of defending market share despite falling prices. Other sources at OPEC backed this view saying they expected oil prices to rise by no more than US $ 5 a barrel a year to reach US $ 80 by 2020, with a slowing in rival non-OPEC production growth not enough to absorb the current oil glut. Oil prices were largely steady, despite the US Fed keeping interest rates unchanged on worries over the health of the global economy. Analysts had suggested a weaker greenback - a usual result of low interest rates - would support oil, as it makes dollar-traded crude cheaper for countries using other currencies. Yet because the Fed' s decision was based on economic concerns, some analysts and traders had a different view. " It' s the Fed' s thinking behind holding rates that spooked us more than the impact of a weaker dollar," said one crude trader. " They kept rates low, because they worry about the health of the global economy. That makes me worry about global oil demand," the trader said. " Shockingly, one (Fed) official thinks rates need to be cut, and not raised, before the end of 2015 ... The sluggish economy is bound to weigh one way or another," said Howie Lee of Singapore-based brokerage Phillip Futures . |
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