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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... action to stem the eurozone financial turmoil. In local economic news, Qantas said that from April its flights to Europe will stop over in Dubai under a 10-year partnership with Emirates. Qantas shares rose seven cents, or 6.2 per cent, to $1.19. Billabong ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
Pa-lease stop with these nudge, nudge, wink, wink already -- and ease up on the promises and pledges while you're at it. No, I speak not to you Virginia, but it is to Ben and Mario I direct my displeasure. I've been watching the markets for decades ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... Europe." There's her finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, warning against raising "false expectations" on the ECB's capacity to stop the debt crisis. He was talking, of course, about the Draghi bond buying plan - the one that's got European equities' ...

MySuper flipping ban passes lower house

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... Representatives, with some last-minute amendments. A push by Greens deputy leader and employment spokesperson Adam Bandt to stop employers gouging additional fees, by changing employees' superannuation funds after they leave the workplace was successfully ...

Dull night on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
... up by 0.02% and the S&P 500 centimetered down by 0.01%. And I thought last week was the boring-est week of the year? Next stop Jackson Hole symposium at the end of August where Big Ben could pre-announce the much-awaited launch of the QE3 - like he did ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
Indecisions, indecisions... Is this the sound of silence I hear? Investors appear to have stopped on their tracks, unsure of whether the next move would be a jump or a dive. But with momentum blowing on their tail, chances are the uptrend that started ...

Benchmarks stop us thinking: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
The shock of the GFC, the impacts of the Euro crisis and moribund world capital markets ever since are forcing institutional investors to confront the reality that their traditional investments models aren't working, said AXA Investment Managers. A ...

TO Panel silences Mariner

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... after comments made by its chief executive officer to the media. Mariner Corporation had applied to the takeovers panel to stop the sale of Austock's property business, which it labeled as a "blatant" attempt to block its bid for all shares in the company. ...

Mariner calls it quits on Austock offer

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... bid for Austock shares. It was reported on Monday 16 July that Mariner would take Austock to the Takeovers Panel to try and stop the sale of the property business. In the ASX announcement however, mariner said "we do not believe it is in the commercial ...

Digging dirt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
... predicted contraction of 1.5% this year. And while we're at it, here's some more bad news. The ECB warned Greece that it would stop accepting Greek bonds and other collaterals pledged by Greek banks until the after IMF and EU officials are satisfied ...