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Securities dealer scales back after ASIC review

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... Financial Services licence (AFSL). The Queensland-based dealer promoted a range of investment education and financial markets trading and modelling tools to investors via a network of more than 35 corporate and individual authorised representatives in ...

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... year 2013 munching on egg-shaped chocolates - big and small - for if the first quarter is anything to go by, financial markets could look forward to more kinder surprises for the rest of the year. Yes folks, the macro theme of rotation and reflation ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
You gotta give it to the Europeans, they sure know how to shoot themselves in the foot. Financial markets celebrated after reports that a deal had been struck between the government of Cyprus and its benefactors. Nobody gave two hoots whether it's a ...

Ben's your uncle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Fed promise soothes Cyprus worries. These five words sum up the financial markets' performance while we slept. Good thing the US Federal Reserve's monthly FOMC meeting came when it did -- right in the midst of another bout of European contagion speculation. ...

No Grexit, no Cyprexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... have to do is go back to those horror Grexit stories and speculations to appreciate its potential impact on the financial markets. As ECB president Mario Draghi said earlier this month, "Cyprus's economy is a small economy but the systemic risks may ...

Super members fail to top-up amid 'perfect storm'

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... respondents not convinced that superannuation was a good place to invest their money, more than three in five cited financial markets (62.8 per cent) and the global environment (59.3 per cent) as key concerns. According to Club Plus Super, online respondents ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) releases the minutes of its March board meeting, RBA assistant governor (financial markets) Dr Guy Debelle speaks on the topic of Some Recent (And Not So Recent) Trends in Australian Debt Markets at the KangaNews DCM ...

ASIC eases fears on high frequency trading

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... of total equity market turnover. ASIC did find that high-frequency trading strategies can create 'noise' in financial markets and is making some suggestions to moderate the activity. "The work of the two taskforces has shown that while there are some ...

Ripples from a pebble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... part of the globe and threaten not only the sense of calm, but the optimism, that's currently prevailing in the financial markets. Hello bears! According to reports, Cypriots' bank savings of a,-100,000 and below would be charged a deposit levy of 6.75% ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... and Investments Commission will hand down its report on the impact of high frequency trading on Australia's financial markets. The market on Friday posted its biggest one-day gain for 2013, with the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index adding 88 points to 5,120.2 ...