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We shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... voila, this Sunday service hymn (originally the marching tune of the civil rights movement) and the congregation on The Street have their own rallying song. The US Conference Board revealed that consumer confidence dropped to 63.4 in March following ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... they were preparing for a national "day of rage" on Friday, which is expected to see thousands of protesters take to the street. Mr Potter said this could impact investor risk appetite. "This will probably increase the fears and contagion of what's happening ...

Oil central bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... just to stay put with the S&P 500 and the Dow just a teeny-weeny bit (0.01 per cent) below the zero line. Can't blame The Street's behaviour last night. There was no major economic data out to sway sentiment one way or the other. And those that had significance ...

Oil at US$300

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... this day. It's the mirror image of the previous day's "Wall Street dips as oil pressure bounds" theme, or days when The Street falls as oil surges. And what happens when equity markets gain at the same time that the price of crude increases? There's ...

Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
Wall Street welcomed March with a big drop with the three major indices down about 1.5 per cent on the day. Oh boy, here we go again. News services were all over the place blaming the renewed spike in crude. Oil spiked - again! - because of reports ...

People powered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
Gone in 18 days! The New Year's fresh events risk that was Egypt has gone with the departure of the country's strongman. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had been ultimately forced to abandon the throne his bum had been glued onto for 30 years by 18-days ...

Catching its second wind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... ended last night's session just a tad (0.1 per cent) higher. It was hilarious reading the almost "real-time" read on The Street this morning. Yes, I was up that early and early trading was bad. Then, the general theme of analysis was that the bond market ...

Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... Capital Management and Loch Capital Management to gather evidence that they engaged in insider trading. The word on the street now is who's next? My oh my, I don't know why the financial press attributed this as a market negative? Shouldn't this be another ...

CareSuper and ME take it to the streets

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
CareSuper talks to members in a local shopping mall in a bid to generate interest in super and financial advice. CareSuper has stepped up member services with an outreach approach alongside Members Equity (ME) bank, setting up in a ME branch to provide ...

Recycled fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... China. Come now all ye merry gentlemen (and ladies)... not this one again. I've lost count on how many times prices on The Street dropped on news that China is slowing its economy. This time, a little bird told me that investors were spooked (again) ...