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VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
Armageddon. Catastrophe. Lehman Bros moment. GFC mark II. Game over. Funny but... haven't I heard all this before? Let me think. Yeah right. That's it. "Twas about four years ago when Lehman bit the dust. Remember how you - and your neighbours -- felt ...

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... same. Guess we'll have to continue fidgeting until 17 June when Greece votes again. In the meantime, talks about another "Lehman moment" and "GFC part deux" are growing louder. Boyoboyoboy, we're in trouble now... big trouble all because of little Greece. ...

Wheel of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... - released in January - that, "signalled a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008." And it wasn't only the WB singing the gloom and doom tune at the time, every other international financial ...

ETFs have proved their worth in crisis: iShares

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... scenario led to an explanation by Adam Seccombe, head of capital markets at iShares of ETF trading during the week of the Lehman Brothers collapse in September 2008. "Investors might well say the benefits are all good and well during normal market conditions ...

Legacy systems cause super funds to rethink op models

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... how can the funds provide the necessary transparency at the member level?" he asked. "If you go back to the crisis when Lehman collapsed, you saw worldwide those who had these multiple systems were left exposed. Having their business organised by asset ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... four-year high" (Australian Financial Review) These headlines were referring to 5 June 2008 - a little over three months before Lehman Bros called it quits on 15 September 2008 - when the S&P 500 closed at 1404.05 points. The S&P 500 index ended at 1365.74 ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... spectacular as its European counterpart but this took the index up to its highest closing since May 2008 - four months before Lehman called it quits in September of the same year. The S&P 500 index ended 1.5% on the up and up while the Nasdaq increased ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... year and by 3.1% the next and warned of "a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008." Perhaps what gives is that these gloomy forecasts and dire warnings are already priced in and that unless ...

Aus can deal with another GFC: Shorten

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... for the moment, the risk of a much broader freezing up of capital markets and a global crisis similar in magnitude to the Lehman crisis remains. In particular, the willingness of markets to finance the deficits and maturing debt of high-income countries ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... Economic Prospects report that, "signalled a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008." I touched briefly on this report yesterday but theage.com.au has made a meal out of it. They've even managed ...