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Danger signs ahead but bargain stocks a-plenty: Faber

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Leading contrarian investor Dr. Marc Faber wears his "ultra bearish" cap in his Australian visit, predicting another financial crisis could happen in the next five to 10 years - but even that doesn't mean there aren't any investment opportunities, particularly ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... Bank of Australia (RBA) warned last month of a developing bubble in the housing market. A bubble in a time of a "Great Recession" since the "Great Depression?" Australia's monetary and fiscal stimuli are working. While nominal retail sales fell by 1.4 ...

V still likely

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... hibernation. The "Maestro," former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was quoted overnight thinking out loud that the recession may be close to ending as he expects growth to reach plus (yes plus) 2.5 per cent in the third quarter as businesses ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... sales rose last month for the first time in nearly two years. The day's reports were the latest indications that the recession that began in December 2007 could be retreating. Hope of a recovery, based on better corporate earnings reports and economic ...

CalPERS buys Macquarie property

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... properties are in Northern California. "People will always need to go to the supermarket, which make these properties recession-hardy as well as valuable in periods of economic growth," said Ted Eliopoulos, senior investment officer, CalPERS real est ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... economy. Investors are placing big bets that the ability of companies to squeeze out surprise profits means the longest recession since World War II is finally easing its grip. But even as earnings and some economic reports suggest the economy is strengthening ...

The perfect hedge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... retail spending are improving in Australia. So much so that the likelihood that Australia will experience a "technical" recession is as much as Peter Costello becoming Premier - it could still happen but not this time, thank you. And in the US, Japan ...

Fed brawn, RBA brains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... the crises of recent history -- the Asian Financial Crisis, LTCM collapse, Russian default, the dotcom bubble, the US recession of 2002. The RBA shielded Australia all through these episodes of market turbulence. And it looks like it has again - with ...

Super must become more efficient: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... manifesto, the Prime Minister has outlined his views of the economy and his plans for the nation as it emerges from recession covering infrastructure policy, taxation, regulation, climate change, retirement income policy and health. "We need to encourage ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... stockmarket had gained as investors became more convinced that fears of a large scale financial system collapse and deep recession were unfounded. "You can call it anaemic growth or whatever, but we don't have a recession." Australian shares were doing ...