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Buying op

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... equities are poised to follow." We've come a long way baby - a full 180 degree turn. Through most of 2011 and before last night's correction on Wall Street, the prevailing consensus (and borne out by observation) was that the price of oil is inversely ...

Fund managers feast on billion-dollar debt

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... billion-dollar offerings from Asciano, Telstra and Macquarie Bank, PIMCO said, while Woolworths issued US$850 billion on Tuesday night, split between 10-year and five-year bonds. Rob Meade, head of portfolio management in Australia for PIMCO said there ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... prices of bonds and their yields move in opposite directions. The markets had been mixed earlier in the day, after late-night White House talks failed to resolve a budget crisis that could lead to a shutdown of parts of the government. Traders seemed ...

Industry digs deep for children's charity

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... money for charity. There was also a silent auction throughout the event and a live auction at the gala dinner on the final night. The proceeds were donated to the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, which provides much needed medical equipment for children's hospital ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... and there are some macro issues in the wind, with the markets focusing on the potential for a rate rise in Europe tomorrow night and any further news from the board of the US Federal Reserve with regards to QE2 (its second round of quantitative easing). ...

RBA worries not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... the Middle East and North Africa. Last time I looked, the European sovereign debt crisis still is... in crisis. Just last night, Moody's Investors Service downgraded Portugal's credit rating to BAA1 from A3 and announced that it expected the country ...

JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... institutions at the height of the GFC. Turns out that the US Treasury made a good investment out of that one. Reuters reported last night that two banks -- rumoured to be Sun Trust Banks and KeyCorp - is set to repay the US Treasury US$7.4 billion today. ...

We shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... NATO's doing a tour of Libya, bombing the bejeesus out of Qaddafi and his supporters. The European debt crisis is back. Last night, Standard & Poors downgraded Greece to BB- vs. BB+ with a negative outlook and downgraded Portugal to BBB- vs. BBB also ...

SG needed to save retirees: Shorten

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... Bill Shorten has told delegates at the Conference of Major Super Funds. Minister Shorten, who flew to the Gold Coast last night to give a special Government briefing to the conference reception, said the first of 4.5 million baby boomers born between ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... counterparts. Despite growing momentum in the US economy, the Fed's still maintaining its quantitative easing program. Juts last night, Bloomberg reported that Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans believes that, "Despite recent improvements ...