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D-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... least at the open (that's all?). How the All Ordinaries index close today is anybody's guess. It's already lost 2.2% yesterday - the biggest one-day drop since 6 May (for stat lovers out there) - taking its 2015-to-date return to a measly 0.5%. The Commonwealth ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... overnight - and the dive - yields on 10-year Greek bonds sank 150 basis points to 11.165% -- as last month, last week and yesterday's talks of "Grexit", "Grexodus" and "Graccident" vapourised. And then, there was contagion. Spain's equity market rallied ...

Plus ca change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... its aid program. Greek banks have almost exhausted the a,-59.5 billion granted by the ECB, Skai Television reported yesterday, without saying how it got the information." Then this by Bloomberg on the 12th of the same month: "The ECB's Governing Council ...

Animal spirits may be playing with fire

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... unbiased company position. This is one the key findings among research from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) released yesterday. Among nine investment papers in the RBA's quarterly bulletin, several themes were addressed. In the paper Firms' Investment ...

Greens strike pension test deal with coalition

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... Discussion Paper, and proposed changes to the pension asset test will be passed by parliament. The deal was struck late yesterday and confirmed in a statement by Greens leader Richard Di Natale, who said pension payments will be redirected to those who ...

Grexit nears, markets cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... scenarios" for Greece". If financial markets were spooked last Friday and were wetting their pants all weekend through to yesterday, shouldn't they be sprinting more scared today? For today, both parties have dug in their heels deeper and that elusive ...

Game theory theorises no Grexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... avoid a fatal collision. German Chancellor and the most powerful woman in the world, Angela Merkel, confirmed it only yesterday when she told the world that, "Where there's a will, there's a way. The goal is to keep Greece in the euro area." Angie baby ...

New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... This report was published on 26 March this year... when the Shanghai composite index was at 3,682.09 points - 28% below yesterday's close of 5,131.88 points. For sure, if it's overvalued then, it's more overvalued now especially factoring in the backdrop ...

SDI products drive retail FUM growth

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... portfolios, exchange tradeable funds and products, and self managed super funds (SMSF). Research presented by Rainmaker at yesterday's MAX Marketing, Advertising and Sales Forum convened by the research group revealed these SDI segments account for 17% ...

Banks lead Australian market lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... the RBA," Mr Le Brun said. "When we didn't get one, we saw an acceleration in terms of selling in high-yield stocks yesterday, and it's carried through today." Mr Le Brun said GDP (gross domestic product) figures released on Wednesday had not had a great ...