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Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
Wall Street jumped again overnight but Main Street's mood has turned from nervous insouciance to outright outrage. Hip, hip, hurray! Wall Street greeted St. Patrick's Day with a 3.2 per cent rally in the S&P 500, a 2.5 per cent jump in the Dow and the ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Been there, done that. More money poured and promised to be poured into the economic and financial systems have not convinced equity markets that the 'beginning of the end' of the global financial crisis is nigh. US President Barack Obama declared these ...

Mercer buys Callan Associates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
Mercer strengthens its investment consulting business further after it acquired Callan Associates, one of the largest consulting firms in the US. Based in San Francisco, Callan Associates provides research, education, decision support and advice for ...

No bad news is no news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
What's this? No headlines on yesterday's all-important Australian Labour Force report? Australian newspapers have relegated yesterday's Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) employment report to their inside pages. Since November last year, the media ...

Olicc wins Shadforth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
Olicc Technologies, which is part-owned by Coin Financial Planning Software, has scored a deal with boutique dealer group Shadforth Financial. Under the agreement, Shadforth will use Olicc's practice management solutions, including its business intelligence ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... stocks like Wal-Mart Stores Inc, McDonald's Corp and Procter & Gamble Co. Some tech stocks were among the gainers, including Intel and Microsoft. After two weeks of selling, many stocks are looking much more attractive. The Dow Jones industrial average ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower after US stocks fell on fears about the health of big financial firms and the overall economy. At 0823 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March Share Price Index futures contract was down 104 ...

Knife falls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Anyone else caught the falling knife? Lower earnings forecasts quickly ended Wall Street's optimism over Santa Obama's promise of a 'single biggest investment' since the 1950s. Like I said in yesterday's commentary, for now this is simply rhetoric. ...

Faster than the speed of fright

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
Sybase Australia has unveiled a new analytic appliance that can process data queries up to 100 times faster than existing databases, allowing traders and quant analysts to retrieve and analyse market information faster and cheaper than ever before. ...

The best forecaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
Those of you who still remember the 'Maestro' - former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan - would also recall one of his musings, the long-term interest rate conundrum. In his testimony before the US Congress in February 2005, Greenspan declared ...