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Yesterday today tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... from an upwardly revised 189,000 increase in the previous month. Never mind that crude oil prices rose even higher last night - up 2.9 per cent - than yesterday's 2.7 per cent. Investors love Wall Street more today. And Bloomberg's report wouldn't be ...

ACFS awards innovation and investment stewardship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... The local investment community celebrated innovation and investment stewardship at an awards gathering in Melbourne last night, with Care Super, Goldman Sachs Asset Management & Partners Australia and La Trobe Financial Services among this year's winners. ...

Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... conditions seems likely to lead to a somewhat more rapid pace of economic recovery in 2011 than we saw last year." Last night's ISM manufacturing index report gave credence to Benny's words. The index rose to 61.4 in February from 60.8 in the previous ...

Buy a toaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America." He's not wrong there. And gauging from last night's Fedspeak, it shall remain so. New York Fed President William Dudley noted that while America's economy has "improved considerably... ...

SMSFs a blueprint for future super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... Government endorsed self-managed super funds (SMSFs) as a model for retirement savings in the years to come. Speaking last night at the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) conference in Brisbane, financial services ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... oil as we know it ladies and gents is the lifeblood of all economies the price of which has topped US$100 a barrel last night. And this is all because of worries that the political unrest would spread far and wide across the Middle East and Africa. Libya ...

Yakety yak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
I wonder if anyone noticed that there was a G-20 meeting held over the weekend. Yes, there was! Honest. Am sure many have heard of the meeting in Paris where the world's 20 most powerful heads talked to discuss the collective economic and financial ...

Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... induced spike in the headline measure - underlying inflation remains no worries. Have no fear, there's no inflation here. Last night's data on US consumer price inflation confirms this. US headline inflation rose by 1.6 per cent in the year to January. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... Australian market. "We're up ten to 12 points this morning - a nice lead from some good earnings out of the states last night," he said. "These are first signs of the economy over there getting back on track and I think the market will respond if that ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... would be better. Oh yeah, there were some dips since then... but they were few and far between (only three in the past forth night)... and they were very teeny weenie (less than half a per cent). This shouldn't happen! Fears that the popular revolt that ...