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Market Wrap- Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
... firm consensus on a bailout. "Why we're still very nervy is that there still hasn't been a deal done. There's nothing concrete and it's still a nervous market," he said. In local trade, all sectors saw broad-based gains except for telecoms, which fell ...

Promises and plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... plan to prevent the global economy and the financial markets from flushing down the loo. Long on blahs, still short on (concrete) action. That's what we got from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) weekend meeting. In its 24 September press release ...

Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... chances are that any goodwill this brings would be temporary unless Europe gets its act together and produce a unified and concrete solution to tackling its debt crisis. Let's wait and hope.

Not looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... there usually is, at least one - but given the ineptitude of the powers that be to present a credible, concerted and concrete solution to these problems, perhaps the most prudent course of action is to batten down the hatches and accept that things will ...

Goodnight Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... would realise that they could not keep on kicking the can down the road forever and cobble together a more aggressive, concrete and united action plan. In the meantime, it wouldn't hurt to stay on the defensive while we wait. Let's see what they come ...

AustralianSuper assets under 'climate change' test

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
AustralianSuper hopes to get a more concrete measure of how much 'climate change risk' can affect the fund's long-term returns, hiring a consultant to analyse the impact of climate change on all its investment portfolios. The $37 billion fund said it ...

Yakety yak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... they did. They also welcomed, encouraged, called on and promised to discuss at their next meeting. Perhaps there'll be concrete action at their next meeting. Perhaps pigs can fly!

Perpetual settles over Mahogany

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... believes the settlement agreement works in the collective best interests of Mahogany investors and will ultimately deliver concrete outcomes for them," Perpetual said in a statement.

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... Bank's announcement that it would provide unlimited liquidity to governments and financial institutions and backed it with concrete actions - it bought sizeable amount of peripheral countries' debts last week - brought some warmth to Europe's winter ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... done boys! Looks good... on paper. Now that everyone's in agreement, tell me how do we do it? Yes, there weren't any concrete plans for concrete guidelines that would enforce concrete actions to prevent unilateral policies from the other mammoths. Too ...