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BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
What's wrong with this market? With so much liquidity being pumped into the system by three of the world's major central banks - the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan - markets appear unconvinced. Wall Street was down ...

Faith in monetary policy spawns new investment theme

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... stimulus move backwards amid Government spending cuts while fiscal responsibility remains a key factor in the coming US election. "China knew it had overdone it and immediately started pulling fiscal stimulus sooner than Europe or the US did so we lost ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
Heard at the G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju: blah, blah, blah... and more blah, blah, blah. As it always is when top authorities of the top nations meet, there's going to be too much chatter and too little done. Financial markets were right to expect that ...

Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
It's a wrap! It's official! September 2010 is the man! Wall Street may have been down for the day but it produced the best September gain even before many of us were born. The S&P 500 index soared by 8.8 per cent in the month, the Dow jumped by 7.7 ...

Wiki me happy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
Web content manager Vignette predicts that social networking tailor-made for corporates will be the next platform on which financial services providers can engage their Gen Y staff and retain their customers. The power of social networking came to the ...

Pengana Global Volatility gains 24pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... peak. "High volatility breeds uncertainty and uncertainty breeds opportunity [for the fund]," said Wilkinson. With the US election out of the way, and after much government intervention, the index is back to around the mid-50s range and Wilkinson expects ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
... happy to take some money off the table," he said. "Coming from our offshore office out of Chicago, they see with the US election... just (achieving) an outcome is going to buoy the stock market to start off with, but if the Democrats were to win, then ...

Living in a volatile world: Pengana

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
Living in interesting times means now may be the time to focus on volatility itself instead of just traditional performance measures, said Alvin Wilkinson, principal portfolio manager of the new Pengana Global Volatility Fund that is due to launch in ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
... jump in technology stocks and news that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will step down offset jitters about US election results. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 26.82 points at 12,183.59. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 3.99 points ...

Australian dollar surges after US election result

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2004
The Australian dollar shot up over one US cent to hit six and half month highs in early morning trade, after US president George W Bush was reelected for a second four-year term. At 0700 AEDT the local currency was at $US0.7555/58, compared to yesterday's ...
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