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Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... the Dow went into a freefall to record its worst ever intra-day drop of 998.5 points. Was it the threat of the Greek sovereign debt crisis going pan-European and then global? Was it news of China's latest tightening measures? It upped its reserve requirement ...

Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... doom and gloom I smell in the air? Yes Virginia, we're back to prophesising our own demise. This time it's the Global Sovereign Crisis (GSC) that threatens the world as we know it. It's now become a case of the governments having saved the banks, but ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... that were exacerbated by the Greek riots and a warning from ratings agency Moody's that it could downgrade Portugal's sovereign debt within three months. Moody's said it had placed Portugal Aa2 government bond rating "on review for possible downgrade" ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... as a lower-than-expected first half profit from ANZ Banking Group Ltd pulled back the financial sector and continued sovereign debt worries in Europe affected resources stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed down 37.2 points, or 0.77 per cent ...

Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... coming back to spoil the festivities. I don't know about you, Virginia, but news that Standard & Poor's cut Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk is hardly new news. What's fresh news is that the ratings agency has taken this long to issue a downgrade ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... recovery. The Dow Jones industrials had their worst drop in nearly three months after Standard & Poor's downgraded the sovereign debt of Greece and Portugal. Investors are concerned that those countries' problems could spread across Europe and hamper ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... shalt find. There's Greece... and Ireland, and Portugal and Spain... and all other high deficit and heavily indebted sovereign countries. But is a country still a sovereign if creditors dictate its policies? Come to think of it, what does it say about ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... Dealers said losses were widespread, with sentiment taking a bad knock late in the day after Moody's downgraded Greece's sovereign debt ratings for the second time since December. The Greek lead unsettled Asian markets where investors are already concerned ...

Sovereign fund takes shine to platinum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
Sovereign fund Temasek and European-based pension fund APG are looking to invest more than $50 million each in a South African platinum exploration and development firm. Platmin announced that both parties have expressed an intention to buy over $50 ...

Planner fees for super advice cost $1.3bn

ISN PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
Rainmaker Research has found that $1.3 billion of workers funds were redirected to financial planners in the form of commissions, including $550 million from compulsory (SG) super. Rainmaker, which owns Financial Standard, also reported that $6.48 billion ...