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When the time comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
The Greek ruins. Oh no, not another Greek metaphor! Yes Virginia, you and I and many others are perhaps sick in the stomach - or sick in the head? - of all the Greek metaphors that has sprung up since the potential for a Greek debt default made the ...

FPA loses chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... Jo-Anne Bloch, chief executive of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), has resigned - a decision that took the FPA by surprise. Bloch spent three years as chief executive at the FPA. During this time she led the revamp of its professionalism framework ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... sharemarket outperformed Asian markets On Thursday and did not react to news that the local unemployment rate rose to a surprise 7.3 per cent. The benchmark NZX-50 index closed up 13.83 points, or 0.44 per cent, at 3,148.94. In early trade on Friday ...

From ratchet to resilient: an economy in bloom

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... peers. Fast forward to 2007 when the powers that be had to navigate through the murky waters of the GFC and, to everyone's surprise, the Australian economy emerged resilient. He is confident the economy will stay on course but cautioned investors that ...

One down, more to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period." FOMC Statement, 27 January 2010. But wait there was a surprise - one that could be interpreted good or bad depending on your viewpoint. For me, it was a positive one. The Fed's ...

ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Going nowhere fast. This is what the Dow did over the past two days. The Dow Jones Industrial Index dropped 122 points - the biggest since mid-December - after rallying by 116 points the day before. The Dow closed at a 15-month high on speculation that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... Monday, TD Securities and the Melbourne Institute release their inflation gauge for December. In Australia on Friday, CBA's surprise profit upgrade drove an abrupt, positive turnaround as the share market closed. The market was trading lower until 1558 ...

Stimulexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
Get shorty! Equity markets, commodity markets, corporate bond markets and all other riskier asset markets continue to extend their gains early in 2010. But somehow, the uptrend does not look as convincing as last year's rally. Are markets psyching themselves ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... US jobless rate unchanged at 10 per cent in December. Jobs were actually created - all 35,200 of them! This was a big surprise for the consensus that expected only 10,000 jobs to be created and the unemployment rate to increase to 5.8 per cent. These ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
The Australian share market has received generally positive leads overnight, with all three key Wall Street indices higher, along with precious metals and copper, although the price of crude oil fell again. At 0824 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...